I thin kthe old adage that it is better to teach a man to be a fisherman so he can feed himself then to just give him fish applies here. The point being that teaching someone how to program using visual basic or only teaching them one particular field like computer science, will pigeon hole them in that field. Whereas giving someone a well rounded education will allow the person to not be pigeonholed. However, some universities go to far in teaching only theory and not doing hands-on real world work. I think that a healthy combination of hands-on work and theory is needed i.e. something like a theory ladened course with a internship requirement, or one theory laden course and another course putting those theories into practice on a e-commerce database application would be a nice addition. This same type of combination could be applied to a general education requirement, say your major is computer science and you are taking a religion course, at the end of the semester you could have to turn in some kind of application having to do with religion on the web etc...i.e. you are learning in other fields but also those fields are glued to yours.
I know some very good detectives, and if science were the only way to solve a case, then some of the best detectives would be in labs using microscopes 24/7. This is simply not the case, because many people are getting crime scene investigations, which are static entities that are leftafter the crime, confused with detective work, which is not only the ability to examine crime scenes, but for a nerd is comparable to social engineering for passwords or in their case clues. Detectives who can talk a good game can leave the crime scene investigations to the science saavy medical examineers or more scientifically intelligent detectives. However I also happen to know that science does contribute heavily to detective work too, in that NEW fingerprint identification and forensic technologies have allowed many detectives to solve either 1 crimes they couldn't have solved 20 years ago, or 2, even reach into the unsolved case pile and catch a crook who has been on the loose for at least 20 years. So what some people are saying is not completely wrong, but tradiitonal gumshoe and gritty detective work is needed as much today as yesterday to catch crooks. Book em Dano!
running a server directory results in a lot of things
1.) you could extort the record companies into you shutting down
2.) you could run commercials in the program, like napster's cd now banner ads. Imagine putting like 10 banner ads in the program to say something like a gambling site
3.) you could charge a one time sign up fee of like 10 dollars, who wouldn't pay this ?
4.) you could have musicians pay for their songs to be commercialed on it
I'm sure you can think of otehr reasons, i just don't know why napster didn't do this in the first place
why doesn't a company form outside of the U.S. with a napster type server, like one of those online gambling companies that evades U.S. and other countries laws. If someone did this then everyone could switch over to it and napster would be so screwed cause then no one would pay the X dollar amount a month for a subscription and everyone could enjoy the scalable architecture of a napster like system again. I know this sounds unfair to music artists, but that isn't the question, the question is: Since there is so much money to be made, then why hasn't this been down ?
I agree completely, too many people think that biological differences are a big deal. They may be a big deal physically, but not mentally. Our mental self is formed by social itneraction and experience in our lives. Of course if cloning progresses where they can actually clone a human being right there, i.e. a clone ends up getting copied and thinking its not a clone, that it's the actual person it was cloned from, then many questions such as "Does the mental supervene on the physical ?" will be answered. And this would have enormous implications because then our consciousness arises from purely physical interaction. And clones and their first order counterparts would have the same shared experiences at the moment of cloning etc...
what do you mean by that ? Isn't it obvious that capitilism is totalitarian ? Free competition just means competition between a couple companies that own 90 percent of the services, it doesn't actually mean free competition like in a sports playoff or something of that nature. using the sports analogy again, only a few teams get to get in the playoffs in capitilism, not everyone. The only time that people get outraged is when there is only one company, i.e. a monopoly. But even with anti-trust laws against a monopoly, capitalism has no problem with there being 2 companies or a small number of companies controlling and totalizing everything and everyone too. For example, coca-cola and pepsi want to totalize the world's refreshments, they want people to drink their drink over any other drink, not just over other soft drinks, and they don't care at what expense they do it.
maybe for the nes, but maniac mansion was made really really early for the computer, and the nintendo version tried to stay true to the computer version of it. The early nintendo version even let you fry the hamster, but they later took it out or something like that hehe.
I hate to make another post, but your right radiashun, he doesn't have Champion's Forever boxing for the turbo grafx 16 either, that game rocked!! Me and my friends would play that for hours on rainy sunday afternoons! It had Holmes, Norton, Frazier, Ali, Foreman, and you could also make your own fighter, which is taken for granted in most of the new games that are out.
I have a feeling that this auction is fake, I mean come on, theres no pictures of the games, the least he could have done was take a picture of a bunch of consoles and games sitting next to each other, that would be pretty good proof. In addition, his seller rating is 0, which means he hasn't sold crap on Ebay in the past. Oh well, I hope no slashdotters actually made a bid on this thing, well I have faith no one would pay 15,000 dollars for a bunch of old games!!!!
http://www.sju.edu/~tq088283
" I could see this working a lot better if all the music on the Web was pristine and complete -- which it's not. "
well these ^^^^ are the exact type of songs the record industry / greedy artists don't care about. In other words, songs that are not cd quality or almost exactly the same quality as the originals pose no threat to cd sales etc.... So who cares if they can't track the crappy ones!!
I think that the battle bots are great, they show extraordinary ingenuity in the construction. BUT, I don't think they should be controlled like remote control cars, frankly I don't think they should be controlled by a human at all. I think you should have to actually program the bot to fight. Does anyone agree with me on this ? THen there would be true robot battles, otherwise it is just like puppets battling it out ?
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those things kicked so much butt, that and the sabre tooth tiger, and the dodo bird. How good is the name dodo, come on
I don't know if unix internships are widespread. But I know of at least one, cause I did an internship there this past summer, www.infonautics.com and more specifically www.echofactor.com.. I learned a wide variety of unix based utilities, such as SED, while i was there. And I also was able to get better at PHP and PERL. It was a great internship, and a full unix based solution.
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I thin kthe old adage that it is better to teach a man to be a fisherman so he can feed himself then to just give him fish applies here. The point being that teaching someone how to program using visual basic or only teaching them one particular field like computer science, will pigeon hole them in that field. Whereas giving someone a well rounded education will allow the person to not be pigeonholed. However, some universities go to far in teaching only theory and not doing hands-on real world work. I think that a healthy combination of hands-on work and theory is needed i.e. something like a theory ladened course with a internship requirement, or one theory laden course and another course putting those theories into practice on a e-commerce database application would be a nice addition. This same type of combination could be applied to a general education requirement, say your major is computer science and you are taking a religion course, at the end of the semester you could have to turn in some kind of application having to do with religion on the web etc...i.e. you are learning in other fields but also those fields are glued to yours.
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I know some very good detectives, and if science were the only way to solve a case, then some of the best detectives would be in labs using microscopes 24/7. This is simply not the case, because many people are getting crime scene investigations, which are static entities that are leftafter the crime, confused with detective work, which is not only the ability to examine crime scenes, but for a nerd is comparable to social engineering for passwords or in their case clues. Detectives who can talk a good game can leave the crime scene investigations to the science saavy medical examineers or more scientifically intelligent detectives. However I also happen to know that science does contribute heavily to detective work too, in that NEW fingerprint identification and forensic technologies have allowed many detectives to solve either 1 crimes they couldn't have solved 20 years ago, or 2, even reach into the unsolved case pile and catch a crook who has been on the loose for at least 20 years. So what some people are saying is not completely wrong, but tradiitonal gumshoe and gritty detective work is needed as much today as yesterday to catch crooks. Book em Dano!
running a server directory results in a lot of things 1.) you could extort the record companies into you shutting down 2.) you could run commercials in the program, like napster's cd now banner ads. Imagine putting like 10 banner ads in the program to say something like a gambling site 3.) you could charge a one time sign up fee of like 10 dollars, who wouldn't pay this ? 4.) you could have musicians pay for their songs to be commercialed on it I'm sure you can think of otehr reasons, i just don't know why napster didn't do this in the first place
why doesn't a company form outside of the U.S. with a napster type server, like one of those online gambling companies that evades U.S. and other countries laws. If someone did this then everyone could switch over to it and napster would be so screwed cause then no one would pay the X dollar amount a month for a subscription and everyone could enjoy the scalable architecture of a napster like system again. I know this sounds unfair to music artists, but that isn't the question, the question is: Since there is so much money to be made, then why hasn't this been down ?
I agree completely, too many people think that biological differences are a big deal. They may be a big deal physically, but not mentally. Our mental self is formed by social itneraction and experience in our lives. Of course if cloning progresses where they can actually clone a human being right there, i.e. a clone ends up getting copied and thinking its not a clone, that it's the actual person it was cloned from, then many questions such as "Does the mental supervene on the physical ?" will be answered. And this would have enormous implications because then our consciousness arises from purely physical interaction. And clones and their first order counterparts would have the same shared experiences at the moment of cloning etc...
what do you mean by that ? Isn't it obvious that capitilism is totalitarian ? Free competition just means competition between a couple companies that own 90 percent of the services, it doesn't actually mean free competition like in a sports playoff or something of that nature. using the sports analogy again, only a few teams get to get in the playoffs in capitilism, not everyone. The only time that people get outraged is when there is only one company, i.e. a monopoly. But even with anti-trust laws against a monopoly, capitalism has no problem with there being 2 companies or a small number of companies controlling and totalizing everything and everyone too. For example, coca-cola and pepsi want to totalize the world's refreshments, they want people to drink their drink over any other drink, not just over other soft drinks, and they don't care at what expense they do it.
I hate to make another post, but your right radiashun, he doesn't have Champion's Forever boxing for the turbo grafx 16 either, that game rocked!! Me and my friends would play that for hours on rainy sunday afternoons! It had Holmes, Norton, Frazier, Ali, Foreman, and you could also make your own fighter, which is taken for granted in most of the new games that are out.
I have a feeling that this auction is fake, I mean come on, theres no pictures of the games, the least he could have done was take a picture of a bunch of consoles and games sitting next to each other, that would be pretty good proof. In addition, his seller rating is 0, which means he hasn't sold crap on Ebay in the past. Oh well, I hope no slashdotters actually made a bid on this thing, well I have faith no one would pay 15,000 dollars for a bunch of old games!!!! http://www.sju.edu/~tq088283
" I could see this working a lot better if all the music on the Web was pristine and complete -- which it's not. " well these ^^^^ are the exact type of songs the record industry / greedy artists don't care about. In other words, songs that are not cd quality or almost exactly the same quality as the originals pose no threat to cd sales etc.... So who cares if they can't track the crappy ones!!
I think that the battle bots are great, they show extraordinary ingenuity in the construction. BUT, I don't think they should be controlled like remote control cars, frankly I don't think they should be controlled by a human at all. I think you should have to actually program the bot to fight. Does anyone agree with me on this ? THen there would be true robot battles, otherwise it is just like puppets battling it out ?
ME TOO, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOLY those things kicked so much butt, that and the sabre tooth tiger, and the dodo bird. How good is the name dodo, come on
I don't know if unix internships are widespread. But I know of at least one, cause I did an internship there this past summer, www.infonautics.com and more specifically www.echofactor.com.. I learned a wide variety of unix based utilities, such as SED, while i was there. And I also was able to get better at PHP and PERL. It was a great internship, and a full unix based solution.