You can also form a direct statstical link between the annual stork migration in Holland with the seasonal birth rates. This does not necessarily imply a causal relationship.
Aside from the inherent dangers and problems of electronic voting, the idea of commercial, corporate interests producing the software to tally our votes is absurd. Wasn't it MS who poured millions of dollars into the GW campaign? Now, can you imagine what would have happened in Florida if they were using MS software to count votes?
Many states require a Bachelors in Education to be certified as a teacher;
For some subjects, such as computer science, exceptions to this requirements can be made in most school districts, due to the desperate need for qualified instructors.
That is why many of the best and brightest in their fields do not become teachers.
The most obvious reason that the "best and brightest" do not become teachers in their field is the difference in compensation between technical and educational specialists. A previous poster noted that as a highschool dropout sysadmin, he was making more money than any of his former teachers. What's the solution for this sad state of affairs?
Be proactive, not reactive.
Instead of complaining about how stupid teachers are, why don't you do the children a favor, get a teachers certificate and become one of the "smart" teachers.
well back in _my_ highschool days, we didn't have *any* of this newfangled internet, and we LIKED it!
The closest thing we had was a "spidernet" that connected a room full of PET's to a dual-floppy drive. And if you had the right disk, you could put stupid messages on other people's screens.
I think I remember reading in the Linux Journal about a big purchase agreement between Red Hat and the US Army, some time around 1996. I couldn't find any reference on Red Hat's site (I guess they don't archive that far back?). Or maybe i'm off my rocker -- that was after all near the end of my "crazy college years..."
Granted this could perhaps be as innocuous and beneficial as adding vitamin D to milk. I still worry, however. Too often when we tinker with the food chain things go awry. To wit:
zebra muscles in the Great Lakes, introduced to prey upon some 'bad guy' or other, and now taking over the niche of native clams and muscles
kudzu introduced into the south to control roadside erosion, now famous for growing rampantly out of control.
pompas grass, introduced into CA from S America to control erosion, now grows everywhere, out competing endangered native grasses.
The list goes on and on...
Now, I know, nutritionally enhanced rice sounds innocuous at worst, and life-saving at best, but... it is so difficult to predict the effects of tweaking any of the variables in the complex dynamic systems of our ecosphere. Too often the result is unexpected and irreversable damage.
Given that the problem of malnutrition is not the result of a lack of resources in the world, but of a flawed distrobution system for those resources, wouldn't we be wiser to spend our energies and money solving the distrobution problem, rather than inventing one more expensive, monopoly-controlled food source and peddling it to the world's poorest countries?
A while ago, interbase was brought to my attention as a commercial grade, free, "OS" database. Their licence, the IPL, is prety non-restrictive, but I don't know how compatible it is with the GNU/GPL. Any opinions on this?
I haven't had time to evaluate it myself, either. Anybody out there used it?
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int result = 0;
int[] bits = {1,0,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0};
for (int i = 0; ibits.length; i++)
{
result = 1;
result += bits[i];
}
cout result;
My mac-centric (employed) graphix artist pro sis-in-law came over to see the GIMP a few weeks ago. She was blown away. Her words were "This is free?!"
Also groovy was when she tried random Photoshop commands such as CMD+click to do things with the bezier curve (I'm not a real gimp gear-head so ymmv) and other tools, and they worked!
Within minutes she was totally at home w/ the GIMP. Most keystrokes are the same, or a substitution of ALT for that "apple" key. The other factor on the learning curve was geting used to having 3 buttons instead of 1 on the mouse.
In short, people who are reluctant to switch from 'safe' mac to 'tecchie' linux should take some heart from the near total portability of knowledge between photoshop and the GIMP.
It is no different with possible escaping herbicide resistance genes from genetically modified crop. The 'superweed' only has a competitive edge when
sprayed with herbicide, and in the absence of that factor, it loses out over the centuries, because of the tiny amount of energy it wastes on synthesising the
herbicide resistance proteins.
I could not resist this troll...
Let's not be too hasty in letting GE 'superweeds' off the hook. Take Bt Corn, for example, which has a resistance to the pesticide Bt, and which it also produces throughout the entire plant, including the root system.
When sprayed on the surface of tha plant, Bt breaks down to less or non-toxic constituant parts over a season or so. The pesticide produced by Btends up deep in the soil where it "binds tightly to clays and hummic acids" and breaks down at a much slower rate -- samples taken up to 30 months after the plant had died showed no decrease in the amount of Bt in the soil.
Thus, over few short seasons, Bt corn can pollute a field to levels even worse than those produced by planting "regular" corn, and spraying regularly.
bocott coke, and maybe 20% of the people who agree with your cause will boycott it.
That translates into a 20% drop in revenues (um, if Coke didn't own every other company in existence, and only produced just coke).
umm... that's assuming that 100% of the people who drink coke agree with your cause.
Ok, now you can go back to your tuesday morning quarterbacking. And I'll go back to watching that pirated dvd i dl'd over my whopping 14.4 connection. (g)
Ok, we need more data from real people. I think a similar poll has been has been taken, but it was too restrictive to be useful. Instead, I propose the following:
I wish people (this poster and our estemed/. editors included) would stop with the juvenile *cough* *cough* and just be explicit. (e.g.: *suppressed laughter* or *laugh!* or *ha!*). Unless of course, you are trying to imply difficulty typing due to chest congestion.
Are you saying you have not apt-get dist-upgrad'ed for the past 6 (six) months?! You are not a Debian sole then:)
Ahh, that is on my home machine, which connects to the internet via a 14.4 modem. The first time i ran apt-get dist-upgrade it said 127 packages to upgrade. 64M to download. Continue? I decided to wait, instead.
My (secondary) work machine is on a T1, which has been updated every friday since I installed.
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You can also form a direct statstical link between the annual stork migration in Holland with the seasonal birth rates. This does not necessarily imply a causal relationship.
Ok, instead of moderating this down, I'm just saying it:
Quit karma-whoring by linking to that article! Or, quit mod'ing up a post just 'cause someone links to it!
Ha. Ha ha ha.
Do you play a musical instrument or instruments? Which one(s) Do you read music and how well, or are you an "ear musician"?
For some subjects, such as computer science, exceptions to this requirements can be made in most school districts, due to the desperate need for qualified instructors.
That is why many of the best and brightest in their fields do not become teachers.
The most obvious reason that the "best and brightest" do not become teachers in their field is the difference in compensation between technical and educational specialists. A previous poster noted that as a highschool dropout sysadmin, he was making more money than any of his former teachers. What's the solution for this sad state of affairs?
Be proactive, not reactive.
Instead of complaining about how stupid teachers are, why don't you do the children a favor, get a teachers certificate and become one of the "smart" teachers.
I also noticed, during the brief interval when I was able to access the pages, that they are looking for a web admin... I no longer wonder why...
The closest thing we had was a "spidernet" that connected a room full of PET's to a dual-floppy drive. And if you had the right disk, you could put stupid messages on other people's screens.
A Sciphincter says, "what"?
are jst an excse to gratitosly use the "" character.
I think I remember reading in the Linux Journal about a big purchase agreement between Red Hat and the US Army, some time around 1996. I couldn't find any reference on Red Hat's site (I guess they don't archive that far back?). Or maybe i'm off my rocker -- that was after all near the end of my "crazy college years..."
With speech synth, it's a telemarketer's dream -- spam their email, and call them during supper!
- zebra muscles in the Great Lakes, introduced to prey upon some 'bad guy' or other, and now taking over the niche of native clams and muscles
- kudzu introduced into the south to control roadside erosion, now famous for growing rampantly out of control.
- pompas grass, introduced into CA from S America to control erosion, now grows everywhere, out competing endangered native grasses.
The list goes on and on...Now, I know, nutritionally enhanced rice sounds innocuous at worst, and life-saving at best, but ... it is so difficult to predict the effects of tweaking any of the variables in the complex dynamic systems of our ecosphere. Too often the result is unexpected and irreversable damage.
Given that the problem of malnutrition is not the result of a lack of resources in the world, but of a flawed distrobution system for those resources, wouldn't we be wiser to spend our energies and money solving the distrobution problem, rather than inventing one more expensive, monopoly-controlled food source and peddling it to the world's poorest countries?
Just my $.02
Joe's -- No GMO's!
Now's the time to connect with your 14.4 and 1000-song playlist! That'll keep it busy for a while...
Or better yet... if the signals pass over the 'net, then howabout monkeys setting my internet-appliance Thermostat!
I haven't had time to evaluate it myself, either. Anybody out there used it?
int[] bits = {1,0,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0};
for (int i = 0; ibits.length; i++)
{
result = 1;
result += bits[i];
}
cout result;
Aieeeeee! he's the antichrist!
Also groovy was when she tried random Photoshop commands such as CMD+click to do things with the bezier curve (I'm not a real gimp gear-head so ymmv) and other tools, and they worked!
Within minutes she was totally at home w/ the GIMP. Most keystrokes are the same, or a substitution of ALT for that "apple" key. The other factor on the learning curve was geting used to having 3 buttons instead of 1 on the mouse.
In short, people who are reluctant to switch from 'safe' mac to 'tecchie' linux should take some heart from the near total portability of knowledge between photoshop and the GIMP.
I could not resist this troll...
Let's not be too hasty in letting GE 'superweeds' off the hook. Take Bt Corn, for example, which has a resistance to the pesticide Bt, and which it also produces throughout the entire plant, including the root system.
When sprayed on the surface of tha plant, Bt breaks down to less or non-toxic constituant parts over a season or so. The pesticide produced by Btends up deep in the soil where it "binds tightly to clays and hummic acids" and breaks down at a much slower rate -- samples taken up to 30 months after the plant had died showed no decrease in the amount of Bt in the soil.
Thus, over few short seasons, Bt corn can pollute a field to levels even worse than those produced by planting "regular" corn, and spraying regularly.
See the article&l t;/a> (enter "Insecticidal toxin in root exudates from Bt corn" in the search field) in Nature magazine for a more detailed examination of this issue.
That translates into a 20% drop in revenues (um, if Coke didn't own every other company in existence, and only produced just coke).
umm... that's assuming that 100% of the people who drink coke agree with your cause.
Ok, now you can go back to your tuesday morning quarterbacking. And I'll go back to watching that pirated dvd i dl'd over my whopping 14.4 connection. (g)
You too could be part of the borg!
My IT occupation is
My drug of choice is
Ahh, that is on my home machine, which connects to the internet via a 14.4 modem. The first time i ran apt-get dist-upgrade it said 127 packages to upgrade. 64M to download. Continue? I decided to wait, instead.
My (secondary) work machine is on a T1, which has been updated every friday since I installed.