except for those things I do which depend on the internet
You've pretty much neutered your entire comment. You're saying you're more productive except when you're not productive at all. Is that supposed to be good?
Yes indeed, but that's not what we're talking about in this article/thread. We're talking about home users that are giving up on the whole internet thing because it causes them too many headaches.
I think if you read the article you'd find that it's not a p2p problem. There are other "vectors" of infection. Ever gotten an email with a wmv attachment of something super hilariously funny from a friend/family that you absolutely must open? Don't you dare open it, that file could have the same problem.
Any wmv file (copyrighted or not) from any source can be infected. Your whole rant about poetic justice is quite beside the point.
Some of them speak french. Others speak dutch or German. But that's beyond the point, we're not talking about language barriers. We're talking about territorial pissing contests.
There might (and probably is) more to the story. You've probably gotten one side of the story only.
He might be a poor teacher. I've attended some classes (mostly in college though) where most people failed and the problem was that THE TEACHER WAS HORRIBLE! I am pretty sure he didn't realize it, as if often the case. That's usually the case with teacher unable to bring themselves down to the level of the students he is teaching. You see that A LOT in universities. Yes, you're Mr-Smartguy and everything seems so basic to you that you just can't understand why the students don't know the subject inside out even before they signed up for the class. You see knowing the topic you teach is important (and a prerequisite, in my opinion) but being a teacher is a skill in itself.
Sorry for ranting. Just saying, you do need the other side of the story before making the conclusions you're making.
You're pointing to an article where a SINGLE school board in rural PA did this. Living in PA that was a surprise to me (and dissapointment) but let's face it - one school district is not representative of the whole state.
It's when I see these policies being formed at the state level (not sure if it's the case with Kansas) that I start getting really worried. If the school board were I lived did this I'd just move out of the hellhole to the next town over. If the whole state does it, well, that's a bigger problem.
easy: there are only so many people on a sports team. The spending is all about the after school activities (like the Football team), not really about the Phys Ed class (which is too short anyway to make much of a dent in anything).
It's insightful because at the time that particular Barbie came out (not too long ago) there was a big flop about it in the US about how it's giving the wrong message to the children.
With that explanation, it makes more sense doesn't it? Fits rights in! The US does poorly at math, you'd have to wonder why... Well, could it be in part because of these messages (like the Barbie Doll) we send to our kids?
Not only are the pledge drive madenning, but every program they show are starting and ending with a long list of "sponsors". It used to be these sponsor announcement were a very very short (like just the company name and a logo) not anymore. They are getting quite elaborate, kind of like... commercials.
I might pledge during their pledge drive (I do, often) but then I stop watching the channel completely until they're done with the pledge drive. I tolerate the commercials between the programs, but I wouldn't if they were during the programs.
That's indeed how adaware works. But there are other method (other programs) use. Such as the size of the image. Or you could use a white list, rather than a black list. Or look for those random characters strings. Or take all these factors together and automatically make an intelligent determination.
Yes, like you said in your title, it might because a "arm race", but it's a race there is no point for a website/advertiser to try to win. Because let's face it, if someone is determined to race you, they are annoyed enough about it that you're not going to profit (through a clickthrough) from you displaying that ad.
Well, not really. Only if you were the kind of users that ever clicked on these banner ads. I never did, never would. So me using Adblock should not affect the revenue (or lack of) of a site.
But regardless, I am all for a business model change for websites. I hate ads on the web (of all forms: popups, banners, link ads, etc). If that means micropayments have to be implemented, I am all for it. If would gladly pay $0.0003 (or whatever really small number) for each visit to slashdot (in fact, I kind of do already, I am a slashdot subscriber).
You may be right, but in Jonathan Swartz Sun's world, he's probably refering to the server market and/or enterprise workstations (Solaris is just not a contender for consumers). The 12 million Mac OS X are probably mostly consumer home PCs, possibly with a niche in some businesses and school.
So I think Jonathan's statement is probably right.
It may be unjustified (I am not taking a position either way), but there IS a stigma to the kind of school you're attending. I am sorry if you only found out about while attending (rather than prior to enrolling) but you will have to deal with that stigma with your interviewers...
The OS Apache runs on makes a world of difference. You don't have to hack Apache to deface a website, you just have to change the content of the website. That can be done through the OS.
Thanks for the clarification. I think you're right. I guess all I was trying to say is that we don't show in the "employee" column. When the boss gets an edict from above to cut x% of the staff, we don't count...
I am sure it's not universal. My company has a history of "hiring" contractor as a way around hiring freezes. We're in manufacturing, and the laborers are unionized. So the ratio of union to management people is a key factor in the contracts with the union. We contractors don't count in that ratio:) There was a recent wave of layoffs in the management side, contractors were basically left untouched. I think they laid one of us off (and he kind of deserved it) probably for morale boosting with the employees more than anything.
I've been a contractor for more than 5 years at that company, and make a lot more money than the employees, and get all the benefits (health, dental, vision, matching 401k, life insurance) through my pimp (as we lovingly refer to the contracting company boss), and I get treated inside the company just like the employees. I have the same standing in meetings, I have employees working for me (informally of course, since I am a ream of paper without a title). I really can't complain, contracting has treated me extremely well.
Funny, where I work (I am a contractor there) the full time employees were the first to go in those belt tightening times. You see, we contractors are just overhead. We're like the ream of paper next to the printer. We don't count. PHB's seem to look at "how many employees do we have?" and we don't show up in that column. We're invisible in many ways. It is definetely an advantage when they're looking for heads to cut.
By overcoming, I imagine you probably mean overcompensating. There is no way to replace the details and "subtleties" of a book. Movies are just not replacement for book, nor can they ever be replacement for books. The best you can hope is a good movie that sticks true to the story of the book (albeit without the richness of the details of the book).
The "subtlety" thing you describe (or lack of) from LOTR, is that a Hollywood/Jackson problem, or a medium problem? It's hard (impossible?) to explain many of the subtleties with film. Very easy to do on paper.
Not that I am defending IE (I use and like Firefox) but you've got your facts wrong.
IE has popup blocking since XP SP2. Security setting have also been improved tremendously with SP2 (ActiveX controls and other IE annoyance won't install without jumping through some bigger hoops).
Don't go to malls, work, movie theaters, or anywhere where other people have been touching things then... Nowhere have I seen a cross relation between hepatitis and public transportation. There certainly is no evidence that buses are the prefered transportation mechanism for hepatitis infected people.
Or, just follow basic hygiene principles: wash your hands often, and keep your fingers out of your mouth. Something I highly recommend even if you don't take the bus.
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except for those things I do which depend on the internet
You've pretty much neutered your entire comment. You're saying you're more productive except when you're not productive at all. Is that supposed to be good?
"...but some people use computers to do work.
Yes indeed, but that's not what we're talking about in this article/thread. We're talking about home users that are giving up on the whole internet thing because it causes them too many headaches.
I think if you read the article you'd find that it's not a p2p problem. There are other "vectors" of infection. Ever gotten an email with a wmv attachment of something super hilariously funny from a friend/family that you absolutely must open? Don't you dare open it, that file could have the same problem.
Any wmv file (copyrighted or not) from any source can be infected. Your whole rant about poetic justice is quite beside the point.
How do you prove you've forgotten something?
Some of them speak french. Others speak dutch or German. But that's beyond the point, we're not talking about language barriers. We're talking about territorial pissing contests.
There might (and probably is) more to the story. You've probably gotten one side of the story only.
He might be a poor teacher. I've attended some classes (mostly in college though) where most people failed and the problem was that THE TEACHER WAS HORRIBLE! I am pretty sure he didn't realize it, as if often the case. That's usually the case with teacher unable to bring themselves down to the level of the students he is teaching. You see that A LOT in universities. Yes, you're Mr-Smartguy and everything seems so basic to you that you just can't understand why the students don't know the subject inside out even before they signed up for the class. You see knowing the topic you teach is important (and a prerequisite, in my opinion) but being a teacher is a skill in itself.
Sorry for ranting. Just saying, you do need the other side of the story before making the conclusions you're making.
You're pointing to an article where a SINGLE school board in rural PA did this. Living in PA that was a surprise to me (and dissapointment) but let's face it - one school district is not representative of the whole state.
It's when I see these policies being formed at the state level (not sure if it's the case with Kansas) that I start getting really worried. If the school board were I lived did this I'd just move out of the hellhole to the next town over. If the whole state does it, well, that's a bigger problem.
easy: there are only so many people on a sports team. The spending is all about the after school activities (like the Football team), not really about the Phys Ed class (which is too short anyway to make much of a dent in anything).
It's insightful because at the time that particular Barbie came out (not too long ago) there was a big flop about it in the US about how it's giving the wrong message to the children.
With that explanation, it makes more sense doesn't it? Fits rights in! The US does poorly at math, you'd have to wonder why... Well, could it be in part because of these messages (like the Barbie Doll) we send to our kids?
Not only are the pledge drive madenning, but every program they show are starting and ending with a long list of "sponsors". It used to be these sponsor announcement were a very very short (like just the company name and a logo) not anymore. They are getting quite elaborate, kind of like... commercials.
I might pledge during their pledge drive (I do, often) but then I stop watching the channel completely until they're done with the pledge drive. I tolerate the commercials between the programs, but I wouldn't if they were during the programs.
That's indeed how adaware works. But there are other method (other programs) use. Such as the size of the image. Or you could use a white list, rather than a black list. Or look for those random characters strings. Or take all these factors together and automatically make an intelligent determination.
Yes, like you said in your title, it might because a "arm race", but it's a race there is no point for a website/advertiser to try to win. Because let's face it, if someone is determined to race you, they are annoyed enough about it that you're not going to profit (through a clickthrough) from you displaying that ad.
sure there is a business model that doesn't involved ads: subscription fees and/or micropayments.
Well, not really. Only if you were the kind of users that ever clicked on these banner ads. I never did, never would. So me using Adblock should not affect the revenue (or lack of) of a site.
But regardless, I am all for a business model change for websites. I hate ads on the web (of all forms: popups, banners, link ads, etc). If that means micropayments have to be implemented, I am all for it. If would gladly pay $0.0003 (or whatever really small number) for each visit to slashdot (in fact, I kind of do already, I am a slashdot subscriber).
You may be right, but in Jonathan Swartz Sun's world, he's probably refering to the server market and/or enterprise workstations (Solaris is just not a contender for consumers). The 12 million Mac OS X are probably mostly consumer home PCs, possibly with a niche in some businesses and school.
So I think Jonathan's statement is probably right.
All employers do one way or another. You can either get over it, or start your own business.
It may be unjustified (I am not taking a position either way), but there IS a stigma to the kind of school you're attending. I am sorry if you only found out about while attending (rather than prior to enrolling) but you will have to deal with that stigma with your interviewers...
The OS Apache runs on makes a world of difference. You don't have to hack Apache to deface a website, you just have to change the content of the website. That can be done through the OS.
Would be funny except their website appears to be running Linux.
Thanks for the clarification. I think you're right. I guess all I was trying to say is that we don't show in the "employee" column. When the boss gets an edict from above to cut x% of the staff, we don't count...
I am sure it's not universal. My company has a history of "hiring" contractor as a way around hiring freezes. We're in manufacturing, and the laborers are unionized. So the ratio of union to management people is a key factor in the contracts with the union. We contractors don't count in that ratio :) There was a recent wave of layoffs in the management side, contractors were basically left untouched. I think they laid one of us off (and he kind of deserved it) probably for morale boosting with the employees more than anything.
I've been a contractor for more than 5 years at that company, and make a lot more money than the employees, and get all the benefits (health, dental, vision, matching 401k, life insurance) through my pimp (as we lovingly refer to the contracting company boss), and I get treated inside the company just like the employees. I have the same standing in meetings, I have employees working for me (informally of course, since I am a ream of paper without a title). I really can't complain, contracting has treated me extremely well.
Funny, where I work (I am a contractor there) the full time employees were the first to go in those belt tightening times. You see, we contractors are just overhead. We're like the ream of paper next to the printer. We don't count. PHB's seem to look at "how many employees do we have?" and we don't show up in that column. We're invisible in many ways. It is definetely an advantage when they're looking for heads to cut.
By overcoming, I imagine you probably mean overcompensating. There is no way to replace the details and "subtleties" of a book. Movies are just not replacement for book, nor can they ever be replacement for books. The best you can hope is a good movie that sticks true to the story of the book (albeit without the richness of the details of the book).
The "subtlety" thing you describe (or lack of) from LOTR, is that a Hollywood/Jackson problem, or a medium problem? It's hard (impossible?) to explain many of the subtleties with film. Very easy to do on paper.
Not that I am defending IE (I use and like Firefox) but you've got your facts wrong.
IE has popup blocking since XP SP2. Security setting have also been improved tremendously with SP2 (ActiveX controls and other IE annoyance won't install without jumping through some bigger hoops).
Don't go to malls, work, movie theaters, or anywhere where other people have been touching things then... Nowhere have I seen a cross relation between hepatitis and public transportation. There certainly is no evidence that buses are the prefered transportation mechanism for hepatitis infected people.
Or, just follow basic hygiene principles: wash your hands often, and keep your fingers out of your mouth. Something I highly recommend even if you don't take the bus.