A little known counter-intuitive fact about our earth is that "sea level" is not the same everywhere. We didn't find that out until after years of making maps that assumed sea level was constant all over the earth.
Where I see the difference is that 30 years ago, children were being taught to program computers in school. Now days, they are being used essentially as a media delivery system. Schools use computers to keep the students interested in the lesson by videos and games. Students are encouraged to be consumers of computer technology, not the creators of it.
So she didn't get a blood test or breath test back at the station? I mean, a field sobriety test is just that, a FIELD test. You can ask for another alternative test, which is more accurate. In fact a conviction pretty much requires it. So what gives?
The law allows these kinds of searches to protect the officers making the arrest from hidden/concealed weapons carried by the suspect. This includes being permitted to search within an the arms length in the U.S. because they are accessableby the suspect. Seems reasonable to me. You might argue about the admissibility of evidence for *another* crime if it is found, but expecting EVERY police office to wake up a judge for EVERY arrest they perform for a warrant of this type is an example of a "bad law." Police have a right to protect themselves, especially since they deal with violent offenders ALL THE TIME.
I was going to make a joke like "You mean other than Apple?" but that's too easy.
BSD's desktop users fill the same nitch as Slackware. Advanced users that want to do it themselves. That said, most Linux distro's were put together because, as we all know, Linux is a kernel, and not a complete OS. BSD's, are a more complete distro, and the ports system alleviates the need for a lot of stuff that Linux distros take care of (like a package manager.) Still, they both are "worth it" to develop for for their developers and users, and that's a good thing.
Are you sure it's a UNIX variant? I assumed it was big iron, and I am not sure those have cd-rom drive. What's more, if he choose a REALLY good password, brute force decrypt might take a *long* time...
IANAL - In the case of SCO vs everyone, it's because our( U.S.) legal system assumes that the party filing the suit wants the trial to proceed as quickly as possible for a judgment, so they can collect their damages or whatever they are asking for as quickly as possible. SCO didn't really want that, they wanted to delay for the FUD factor. There isn't really a way to prevent this (as apposed to the defense trying to stall for time, a tactic well addressed in court procedure.)As I understand it, if the *plaintiff* wants to stall, there aren't really a whole lot of safeguards. Perhaps someone with more legal training can put their two cents in here to confirm this. Anyway, as far as length, the idea is to give everyone enough opportunity to make their case. If you only had few days, you might not think that was very fair if you were on the receiving end of a suit you knew nothing about, would you?
I think you are missing the point. The MOB killed them in your example, and the masses can and do rise up and kill those who they think unfairly wield power. Case in point- the French revolution. No communism there. Communism is a economic philosophy. People die in revolutions when those who have not try to take from those who have, regardless of economic philosophy.
I owned a Voodoo 1, 2 Voodoo2's that were connected together, and then a Voodoo3. Even by the time of the release of the Voodoo3, I was surprised we weren't seeing 32 bit color. However, 3DFX had their head in the sand, claiming that hardware Anti-aliasing was the wave of the future (which it was, just in 32 bit color) and didn't get it until it was too late. As for a dedicated physics chip, I see some similarities with the Voodoo1. However, if there is no common API for games to access (like OpenGL, so if you have high speed hardware, great, if not, you use software emulation) I just don't see software companies using their resources to develop for it without that kind of API. Glide wasn't the best OpenGL implementation, but it did enough to allow this kind of model. If PhysX were to write their own compatible API with some other popular physics engine, then they might have something...
Oh, I doubt they were the bottom 10%. These end of year layoffs are usually timed so the company does not have to hand out a 4Q or yearly bonus checks, as well as to save on payroll costs for the final quarter to make the fiscal year look good (the calendar year and fiscal year often are the same but not always.) The reason I mention this was that at several companies I have worked for the criteria was to fire 1 or 2 people in every department that made the most vs others doing the same job. This usually turned out to be the senior/most knowledgable person. I can't explain it, I've just seen it/heard about it from HR people at companies I have worked for. Chris
I agree that eventually what you say will happen- that the larger market will reach equilibrium. However I'm saying this *will* take a long, long long time to sort itself out.
OK, I read it. It still does not explain why those jobs being created elsewhere will help domestic workers get hired here. We simply assume that it will all work out in the end, which is a nice sentiment, but a matter of faith. Also this is worth addressing - "With that in mind, one of today's most pressing jobs question might be better turned on its head. instead of asking whether the U.S. economy will create enough good jobs, we ought to be asking Whether our educational system will produce Enough qualified workers. If its people are educated, trained and willing to work, a society with a properly functioning market economy will be able to provide an abundance of opportunities."
Oh, so now it lack of education that's the problem? Computer scientists in the U.S. are the most overeducated people I know. Some of their jobs went overseas. Am I to assume that it was because they were better educated overseas? I'll bet the education levels of both sets of workers are about the same. It was SALARY that was the issue. The "lack of education" explanation is ridiculous. It tries to blame the unemployed for their predicament when the real issue is cost cutting by management and a lack of job growth here in the U.S. If there is such a big shortage of educated workers, why do I know so many people with C.S. degrees unemployed for a year or more? Heck, just about *any* college graduate is worse off (according to some recent data I have seen) than those with only some college. A free market labor system with a shortage of educated workers should be scooping up college grads, no?
This argument assumes that some things can't (or won't) be outsourced. If all the manufacturing, accounting, IT jobs, and any other department you can think of are being outsourced overseas by this company, you can have company growth without much domestic hiring. The benefits you mention assume that the economic model is still somewhat "local"- that is, jobs will be created in the U.S. when investment increases. Displaced workers will simply get those new jobs in the long run. You are correct- jobs are created, but why necessarily U.S. jobs? You could buy equipment that uses raw materials from overseas, is manufactured overseas, is sold by folks overseas to your company's outsourced manufacturing center and never see one domestic worker get involved. Sure, this is an extreme example, but it doesn't always follow that investment money is used on items produced domestically. The traditional economic model assumes SOMEONE will make the item- until recently that person was nearby, because it was cheaper to use local labor as transportation costs were a factor. When the U.S. had more manufacturing, the U.S. economy benefited. These days, if you choose to outsource, you could ship that item to another nearby (non-U.S.) location and still save money and not see a domestic job created. The "Global Economy" means just that- There is no reason to believe that a dollar spent in the U.S. will "come back" in the form of benefits. It did in the past, but those days are gone. If you assume your new customers will be overseas, and then it doesn't matter what happens to the U.S consumer. He could be out of work for years and begging in the streets, it won't affect your profit margins. Other customers will be the ones buying your stuff. I believe this is explains the recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics-Companies are growing and paying stock dividends without adding to domestic payrolls by outsourcing, and by selling more things to the international market. That's why job growth has been minimal except in the low end service sector.
So tell me again how the unemployed benefit from a more efficient economy?
Not to nit pick, but the "windows" part of Windows was in version 1.0 in 1986. The lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft was over the use of icons, which showed up for the first time in version 3.0. Before that the "program manager" listed the file names in a window. I also think NextStep had the dock first, which is kinda like coming from Apple first, sort of... Anyway, good point.
I worry that the info on the card will be used for other, more privacy invading things that they will claim we agreed to by getting a driver's license. Somthing like "By getting a license, you agree to have your data put in law inforcement data bases, market research, genetic screening databases "for organ donation if you are interested" etc... Scares me. Chris
I did try this, and I was instructed by the retail outlet (Best Buy, ugh) that I had to go through the manufacturer. As you can imagine, I would then have to pay for shipping and insurance on the package. At that point, it wasn't worth it cuz I would only break even.
I'm a guy, but I ran across this link the other day. Looks like there are many women active with the KDE project at least. I don't know how many there are vs men working on KDE though.
Chris
http://women.kde.org/
It has been a big advantage to see working source code while learning to program for me. Not those silly trivial example programs you see in the how-to books, but real functional code. Big advantage of programing in an Open Source enviorment. I think with Windows, you really suffer by not seeing how other more experienced programmers work.
My 2 cents.
Chris
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A little known counter-intuitive fact about our earth is that "sea level" is not the same everywhere. We didn't find that out until after years of making maps that assumed sea level was constant all over the earth.
Ham Radio has done this since the early 90's. It's only 300-1200 baud though. Yes, also with satellites.
Where I see the difference is that 30 years ago, children were being taught to program computers in school. Now days, they are being used essentially as a media delivery system. Schools use computers to keep the students interested in the lesson by videos and games. Students are encouraged to be consumers of computer technology, not the creators of it.
Yeah, absolutely.
So she didn't get a blood test or breath test back at the station? I mean, a field sobriety test is just that, a FIELD test. You can ask for another alternative test, which is more accurate. In fact a conviction pretty much requires it. So what gives?
the CRU is taking blowtorches to all the glacial ice in Greenland and the polar caps to make their case, too!
The law allows these kinds of searches to protect the officers making the arrest from hidden/concealed weapons carried by the suspect. This includes being permitted to search within an the arms length in the U.S. because they are accessableby the suspect. Seems reasonable to me. You might argue about the admissibility of evidence for *another* crime if it is found, but expecting EVERY police office to wake up a judge for EVERY arrest they perform for a warrant of this type is an example of a "bad law." Police have a right to protect themselves, especially since they deal with violent offenders ALL THE TIME.
I was going to make a joke like "You mean other than Apple?" but that's too easy.
BSD's desktop users fill the same nitch as Slackware. Advanced users that want to do it themselves. That said, most Linux distro's were put together because, as we all know, Linux is a kernel, and not a complete OS. BSD's, are a more complete distro, and the ports system alleviates the need for a lot of stuff that Linux distros take care of (like a package manager.) Still, they both are "worth it" to develop for for their developers and users, and that's a good thing.
Are you sure it's a UNIX variant? I assumed it was big iron, and I am not sure those have cd-rom drive. What's more, if he choose a REALLY good password, brute force decrypt might take a *long* time...
IANAL - In the case of SCO vs everyone, it's because our( U.S.) legal system assumes that the party filing the suit wants the trial to proceed as quickly as possible for a judgment, so they can collect their damages or whatever they are asking for as quickly as possible. SCO didn't really want that, they wanted to delay for the FUD factor. There isn't really a way to prevent this (as apposed to the defense trying to stall for time, a tactic well addressed in court procedure.)As I understand it, if the *plaintiff* wants to stall, there aren't really a whole lot of safeguards. Perhaps someone with more legal training can put their two cents in here to confirm this. Anyway, as far as length, the idea is to give everyone enough opportunity to make their case. If you only had few days, you might not think that was very fair if you were on the receiving end of a suit you knew nothing about, would you?
I think you are missing the point. The MOB killed them in your example, and the masses can and do rise up and kill those who they think unfairly wield power. Case in point- the French revolution. No communism there. Communism is a economic philosophy. People die in revolutions when those who have not try to take from those who have, regardless of economic philosophy.
FTA:
"Simply stated there is no one button that will always bring you back up to the parent."
No one button? What about the other numbers?
Wasn't Kylix(SP) Delphi for Linux? No one wanted it. Which was too bad, because Object Pascal was fun and easy to write in.
That sounds like Borland C++ 3.1, the bigger version for win32 and DOS development. Turbo C never got that big, at least that I know of.
I hate "me too" posts, but...
I owned a Voodoo 1, 2 Voodoo2's that were connected together, and then a Voodoo3. Even by the time of the release of the Voodoo3, I was surprised we weren't seeing 32 bit color. However, 3DFX had their head in the sand, claiming that hardware Anti-aliasing was the wave of the future (which it was, just in 32 bit color) and didn't get it until it was too late.
As for a dedicated physics chip, I see some similarities with the Voodoo1. However, if there is no common API for games to access (like OpenGL, so if you have high speed hardware, great, if not, you use software emulation) I just don't see software companies using their resources to develop for it without that kind of API. Glide wasn't the best OpenGL implementation, but it did enough to allow this kind of model. If PhysX were to write their own compatible API with some other popular physics engine, then they might have something...
Oh, I doubt they were the bottom 10%. These end of year layoffs are usually timed so the company does not have to hand out a 4Q or yearly bonus checks, as well as to save on payroll costs for the final quarter to make the fiscal year look good (the calendar year and fiscal year often are the same but not always.) The reason I mention this was that at several companies I have worked for the criteria was to fire 1 or 2 people in every department that made the most vs others doing the same job. This usually turned out to be the senior/most knowledgable person. I can't explain it, I've just seen it/heard about it from HR people at companies I have worked for.
Chris
I agree that eventually what you say will happen- that the larger market will reach equilibrium. However I'm saying this *will* take a long, long long time to sort itself out.
OK, I read it. It still does not explain why those jobs being created elsewhere will help domestic workers get hired here. We simply assume that it will all work out in the end, which is a nice sentiment, but a matter of faith. Also this is worth addressing -
"With that in mind, one of today's most pressing jobs question might be better turned on its head. instead of asking whether the U.S. economy will create enough good jobs, we ought to be asking Whether our educational system will produce Enough qualified workers. If its people are educated, trained and willing to work, a society with a properly functioning market economy will be able to provide an abundance of opportunities."
Oh, so now it lack of education that's the problem? Computer scientists in the U.S. are the most overeducated people I know. Some of their jobs went overseas. Am I to assume that it was because they were better educated overseas? I'll bet the education levels of both sets of workers are about the same. It was SALARY that was the issue. The "lack of education" explanation is ridiculous. It tries to blame the unemployed for their predicament when the real issue is cost cutting by management and a lack of job growth here in the U.S. If there is such a big shortage of educated workers, why do I know so many people with C.S. degrees unemployed for a year or more? Heck, just about *any* college graduate is worse off (according to some recent data I have seen) than those with only some college. A free market labor system with a shortage of educated workers should be scooping up college grads, no?
This argument assumes that some things can't (or won't) be outsourced. If all the manufacturing, accounting, IT jobs, and any other department you can think of are being outsourced overseas by this company, you can have company growth without much domestic hiring. The benefits you mention assume that the economic model is still somewhat "local"- that is, jobs will be created in the U.S. when investment increases. Displaced workers will simply get those new jobs in the long run. You are correct- jobs are created, but why necessarily U.S. jobs? You could buy equipment that uses raw materials from overseas, is manufactured overseas, is sold by folks overseas to your company's outsourced manufacturing center and never see one domestic worker get involved. Sure, this is an extreme example, but it doesn't always follow that investment money is used on items produced domestically. The traditional economic model assumes SOMEONE will make the item- until recently that person was nearby, because it was cheaper to use local labor as transportation costs were a factor. When the U.S. had more manufacturing, the U.S. economy benefited. These days, if you choose to outsource, you could ship that item to another nearby (non-U.S.) location and still save money and not see a domestic job created. The "Global Economy" means just that- There is no reason to believe that a dollar spent in the U.S. will "come back" in the form of benefits. It did in the past, but those days are gone.
If you assume your new customers will be overseas, and then it doesn't matter what happens to the U.S consumer. He could be out of work for years and begging in the streets, it won't affect your profit margins. Other customers will be the ones buying your stuff. I believe this is explains the recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics-Companies are growing and paying stock dividends without adding to domestic payrolls by outsourcing, and by selling more things to the international market. That's why job growth has been minimal except in the low end service sector.
So tell me again how the unemployed benefit from a more efficient economy?
Not to nit pick, but the "windows" part of Windows was in version 1.0 in 1986. The lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft was over the use of icons, which showed up for the first time in version 3.0. Before that the "program manager" listed the file names in a window. I also think NextStep had the dock first, which is kinda like coming from Apple first, sort of...
Anyway, good point.
I worry that the info on the card will be used for other, more privacy invading things that they will claim we agreed to by getting a driver's license. Somthing like "By getting a license, you agree to have your data put in law inforcement data bases, market research, genetic screening databases "for organ donation if you are interested" etc... Scares me.
Chris
I did try this, and I was instructed by the retail outlet (Best Buy, ugh) that I had to go through the manufacturer. As you can imagine, I would then have to pay for shipping and insurance on the package. At that point, it wasn't worth it cuz I would only break even.
I'm a guy, but I ran across this link the other day. Looks like there are many women active with the KDE project at least. I don't know how many there are vs men working on KDE though.
Chris
http://women.kde.org/
Damn it! I'm 35 and I'm still in my Basement! Let me out! Let me out!
Chris
It has been a big advantage to see working source code while learning to program for me. Not those silly trivial example programs you see in the how-to books, but real functional code. Big advantage of programing in an Open Source enviorment. I think with Windows, you really suffer by not seeing how other more experienced programmers work.
My 2 cents.
Chris