Hehe, talk about a troll. Yes, we should all stop hurting living cellular organisms. As far as I can tell, it would be impossible to exist without hurting a living cellular organism (the best example I can think is extracting maple syrup, but that still scars the tree).
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No offense, but the amount it costs to fund a corporate legal department for a battle like this far outweighs any advertisement gained with their charge. Ford just wanted to stop this so that they wouldn't get sued by General Motors which would be a much, much more expensive battle. They didn't do their research on 2600 though.
Believe it or not, I support the Green Party more than any other, yet I still think political parties have a tremendously positive effect on American democracy. Imagine a presidential race without parties. Yep, kind of like a high school election - just a popularity contest. That's why George Washington was the first president. Not that he wasn't terribly effective, but he certainly didn't get much accomplished then did he? Couldn't figure out how to tax. Let his cabinet do all the work (Hamilton took care of the debt, etc). Political parties give people distinct ideological choices (well, not so much any more with centralist politics, but what can you do) that they need. Even in a two party system, one can still die. Heck, the democrats seem to be fading pretty quickly at the moment. Hopefully, their fear of the Greens will force them to take a more liberal stance infuse America with some good old political passion. We all know the Democrats will never be as conservative as the Republicans, and at the moment that's what the voters want. They will either go back left or perish. It doesn't work to pretend to be conservative.
Basically, a party system is a given in democracy as far as we have known through history. The only "democracies" without parties are those that have the same president elected over and over because there is too much competition without the same name recognition. I do think that the current parties are abusing their power with campaign finance structures (public funding would fix this) and in the congressional rules committees. Basically, both of them are making laws that insure that their two parties will remain in power eternally. This needs to be brought to the public attention. This is what the Green Party references when it blames the "two-party system"... not the institution of political parties as a whole. If they were really against political parties, they'd join the anarchist party (rather ironic that that exists, but what the hell).
George Washington also railed against political parties in his fairwell address. Those haven't exactly been a thorn in America's side now have they? The barriers to legislation added by political parties (as well as the ability to narrow things down to definite choices) have undoubtedly aided the growth of America.
A single unitary globe may not be the answer, yet, but in a world where communication is instant and transportation is approaching the same level, we can't exactly act on George Washington's advice. Isolationism worked wonders between WWI and WWII eh? Oh wait, a Great Depression and an exodus of American artistic talent. I forgot all abou that. There once was a contingent that fought for state sovreignty, but like national isolationism, it failed. Hell, "federalism" as we know it is a joke. Education is one of the few areas where states reign supreme and it's a mess. Claiming that nations won't one day be as close as the United States are now is ignorance. You could point to unreconcilable differences between certain nations, but I can just as easily point to the conflict between Kansas and Missouri that ended as interstate cooperation increased. I'm nearly as liberal as they come, but it's hard to support unrelenting isolationism.
Eh? My +1 says "No Score +1 Bonus" and is always unchecked. I figured it would post at 3 and disallow moderation (for really inflammatory comments or something I guess). What a really need is a (score=1) button that just disallows any karma math yet still allows moderation. I realize I could post anon, but that shouldn't have to be the case.
Overrated? It wasn't even rated... I need an easy way to post things without using this blasted karma bonus. The no score +1 deal would be even worse. And I'm not even a karma whore...
Someone already said $10 for 2 disks at frys. Hook me up!
Paypal me at hensels.nospam@att.net without the nospam with your cent. Aha! The day is mine. Oh yeah, name = Stephanie Hensel by the way. Now the question is, will the penny be face up and give good luck, or quite the opposite?
Actually, I don't remember Iran-Contra. I was less than 10 years old:)
I still have to respectfully disagree and say that the CoS is a politician. At least to the extent that Condaleza Rice or many other cabinet members are - many cabinet members come from acadamia and not politics. Then again, judging by the political in-fighting at my future college, they might have more experience than most. I guess I just take a broader view of the word "politician" to include not just elected/confirmed officials, but also lobbyists, senior staff, etc.
By the way, thanks for helping me brush up on white house staff information for my AP Gov test Tuesday morning. It's all coming back to me now - Reagan's triangle of power (later to be modified), Carter's hands-on approach... excellent.
I suppose I could be wrong, but I think placing drunken, post-buffet Vegas tourists mere feet away from a Picasso is a mistake in any light. Such a feat requires a tremendously intricate vomit-shield.
Good point on the "specifically thinking" bit. In response, I can just claim that I'm a walking, talking paradox. I've got to go fall up to my bed now. I have a minor final Bio test tomorrow morning.
Having worked as a student aide with the IT department in my district I can say, very incompetent. Suffice to say, we have 3 t1 lines for a district of moderate size and the connection is slower than my 56k modem. It has been like this for the entire school year (they installed gigabit switches to speed up the network and this was a minor side-effect). When it comes to security, there are a ton of flaws as well. For example, I could log onto my account on a Windows NT machine and browse anyone else's network folder. No hacking required. When I clicked on someone else's folder by accident it said something on the order of "would you like to become the owner of this folder" and I said yes. There you have it, I had access. I told an administrator and she said, "oh yeah, we know about that." They then decide to "crack down" and delete any file over a certain size in anyone's folder. Obviously, given the mindset of many highschool kids, a majority of the stuff deleted was illegal. They also, however, deleted files of kids working on projects in the computer department, movies made by kids on 3d Studio in drafting, etc. When they found that a computer was sharing a massive amount of "illegal" material and also found a folder on the computer's c: drive with my name on it, they blamed me. Of course, the admins didn't actually ask me about it, they instead told my teacher to "clean up the computer" or some tripe like that. Suffice to say, people are still running their divx server on that computer and watching The Big Lebowski during Meteorology (hell, half of the teachers play along and watch with them - in fact I haven't seen a single objection to piracy outside of the network admins bitching about a bandwidth loss - a problem which, as I said, is just because of a stupid mistake in the first place).
As far as more "constructive" punishments go - do those even exist? About the most "constructive" punishment I can imagine at our school is out-of-school suspension. I love punishing kids for skipping school by kicking them out of school for a few more days.
You have to consider that this is already quite old technology. In the future it will be possible to tell something to "paint in the style of picasso" and it will be done. Sure, it may just piece together concepts from his existing works, but it will LOOK like a Picasso - funky 3D painting and all. To think that this isn't inevitable is ignorant. Here, you're criticizing a 13-year-old image creation program. I think it's pretty damn ingenious given the period of development.
Regarding the Mirage, you should have walked out. At all the Vegas casinos they horribly overlight their art exhibits creating permanent damage. Specifically, I think that Paris and the Bellagio do this. The drunken gamblers would get confused at the low light level and lack of blinking slot machines otherwise.
Does it say that on the box? I never noticed. So I suppose the stores would then be agreeing to a shipping-box license by seeing that only after they remove the individual packages from the cardboard boxes they arrive in. On anoter level, the shippers would be agreeing to a container-wrap license as they don't see the shipping boxes within the containers provided by the manufacturer, etc. Obviously, this just goes to show how rediclous the whole shrink-wrapped license concept is. Hell, they have to give disclaimers at the end of radio ads - I don't see why they shouldn't have to verbally read you the EULA before you purchase the product.
Your average staffer may not have that much power, but the chief of staff is one of the most powerful people in Washington. To say that they aren't a politician just because they weren't confirmed or elected is a joke. If you say that, you are missing 99% of the politicians in Washington. Hell, I bet Bush's CoS has more power than he does:)
Your average college intern staffer (like those found in congressional offices, white house mail guys/tour guides, whatever) may not have much power, but don't think that the Chief of Staff is a peon just because the people's opinion doesn't give him/her authority.
It's nice that you can point out irony, but the poster wasn't wrong in the slightest. The Chief of Staff is a politician to the same level that a cabinet member / Judicial apointee / etc is. (H/Sh)e probably has more power than either during the time of their appointment as well. The Chief of Staff is responsible for more than the White House aides. The CoS also must arrange for the thousands of other executive branch run departments. Some of these jobs need Senate approval, some don't. Suffice to say, it's a demanding job and provides one with more power than almost any other in Washington.
No, you don't get a refund. With shrink-wrap licenses, you have to open the product before even viewing the license - most stores don't return opened software because of piracy issues.
As far as this being a Gilliam vehicle - I think the premise would get a bit worn after an hour and a half. What would be interesting is to get all the old pythons together and make meaning-of-life-esque movie with skits depicting the paradoxes of copyright enforcement.
It's not that they are bundling it that's the problem. It's that they have a monopoly and choose to solely bundle their browser. Like others have said, you aren't allowed to use one monopoly to get another. While a browser may be expected to come with a new computer, it is hardly an integral part of the operating system (though now MS has decided to make IE it's file browser apparently so I guess that's not the case. Then again, is a file manager even an integral part of an operating system?). In order to make it a fair browser market, they would have to seperate their browser from the operating system. One way to do this would be to sell it seperately and remove its cost from that of the Windows. Obviously, there are other ways to comply with antitrust law, but the basic idea here is that Microsoft is obviously using its OS monopoly to get a monopoly in browsers. This is even more obvious when you see how they petitioned OEMs to solely include Internet Explorer.
Gee whiz, let's whip out the magic time machine and zip back to 1929 to see how a free market works. Wow, putting greed in charge of America is definitely the way to go! A free market would work fine if people were universally ethical, but somehow, I doubt that's the case.
For example the last releases of Photoshop and Illustrator had a disastrous effect on my business. The artists couldn't deal with the sweeping changes made by Adobe.
Hmmmm... why upgrade at all then? I really have trouble coming up with a task that requires Photoshop 6 over 5.5 - if the artists are used to 5.5, and you don't want to spend the cash to teach them 6, why did you fork over the $200/license to get 6? The only reason I can imagine is pressure from the artists themselves (reading reviews and then requesting the upgrade saying it would make their job easier or something).
As far as monolithic upgrades go, the companies need them in order to make their business model work. No one would buy a product just incrementally better than the original. This is why Microsoft releases few updates to their OS outside of stabalizing it. For Microsoft, this is especially true in their 9x/ME line of OS's because the entry cost is so cheap (well, relative to NT anyway). The monolithic update scheme is not specific to non-OS vendors. The reason that Apple, Sun, Linux vendors, etc can afford to present incremental upgrades is that they have none software-license-driven business models (hardware, hardware/services, and services respectively). Adobe and Microsoft don't have an alternate means of profiting off of Photoshop/Windows, so they must have either monolithic upgrades or a high cost. Microsoft uses one method for its 9x line, and another for NT. Adobe uses both:) - of course, Adobe has a much smaller market, so there must be a high cost (yeah, I realize you could counter by mentioning The Gimp here, but that wasn't made for a profit).
I know that Mandrake already has a package updater that works quite well. The only problem is that you have to get the entire new RPM and not just an upgrade package in most cases. It will, however, go to a Mandrake mirror and check all installed packages for updates for you. It doesn't have the singular "update" button feature that you want, and it doesn't have an auto-update feature as far as I can tell, but these would be minor modifications to the existing system.
You're right, but I'm sure that most professors still dole out a majority of their projects in individual form. I'm just saying that group projects certainly have a very good purpose. As a bass player, I know that both being a good player and a cooperative group member are equally important. Now, this is probably more the case with bass than, say, violin, but it is still a critical skill. Especially in a smaller group like a chamber orchestra or the like where you have to be intimately familiar with everyone's playing style. Not to mention playing bass in a jazz rythm section - leading the group is even more important than raw ability in that case. I'd be interested to know how many orchestras your qm prof participated in.
Which is the reason for, as someone else suggested, inner-group grading. Just like performance evaluations by the leaders of groups in the business world.
Face it, whatever job you get in the real world will require group interaction (well, perhaps with the exception of mortician). Sure, a Uni. group assignment isn't totally analagous to a real world one, but it is close enough. It gives you group experience which will undoubtedly be asked about in your job interviews and provides you with social interaction which, in many cases, is just as important a skill to have as technical knowledge. If you plan on working in the world of business, you need that skill.
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Hehe, talk about a troll. Yes, we should all stop hurting living cellular organisms. As far as I can tell, it would be impossible to exist without hurting a living cellular organism (the best example I can think is extracting maple syrup, but that still scars the tree).
No offense, but the amount it costs to fund a corporate legal department for a battle like this far outweighs any advertisement gained with their charge. Ford just wanted to stop this so that they wouldn't get sued by General Motors which would be a much, much more expensive battle. They didn't do their research on 2600 though.
and how many would say, "Wait a second... I thought that was a Reel Big Fish song?"
Believe it or not, I support the Green Party more than any other, yet I still think political parties have a tremendously positive effect on American democracy. Imagine a presidential race without parties. Yep, kind of like a high school election - just a popularity contest. That's why George Washington was the first president. Not that he wasn't terribly effective, but he certainly didn't get much accomplished then did he? Couldn't figure out how to tax. Let his cabinet do all the work (Hamilton took care of the debt, etc). Political parties give people distinct ideological choices (well, not so much any more with centralist politics, but what can you do) that they need. Even in a two party system, one can still die. Heck, the democrats seem to be fading pretty quickly at the moment. Hopefully, their fear of the Greens will force them to take a more liberal stance infuse America with some good old political passion. We all know the Democrats will never be as conservative as the Republicans, and at the moment that's what the voters want. They will either go back left or perish. It doesn't work to pretend to be conservative.
... not the institution of political parties as a whole. If they were really against political parties, they'd join the anarchist party (rather ironic that that exists, but what the hell).
Basically, a party system is a given in democracy as far as we have known through history. The only "democracies" without parties are those that have the same president elected over and over because there is too much competition without the same name recognition. I do think that the current parties are abusing their power with campaign finance structures (public funding would fix this) and in the congressional rules committees. Basically, both of them are making laws that insure that their two parties will remain in power eternally. This needs to be brought to the public attention. This is what the Green Party references when it blames the "two-party system"
George Washington also railed against political parties in his fairwell address. Those haven't exactly been a thorn in America's side now have they? The barriers to legislation added by political parties (as well as the ability to narrow things down to definite choices) have undoubtedly aided the growth of America.
A single unitary globe may not be the answer, yet, but in a world where communication is instant and transportation is approaching the same level, we can't exactly act on George Washington's advice. Isolationism worked wonders between WWI and WWII eh? Oh wait, a Great Depression and an exodus of American artistic talent. I forgot all abou that. There once was a contingent that fought for state sovreignty, but like national isolationism, it failed. Hell, "federalism" as we know it is a joke. Education is one of the few areas where states reign supreme and it's a mess. Claiming that nations won't one day be as close as the United States are now is ignorance. You could point to unreconcilable differences between certain nations, but I can just as easily point to the conflict between Kansas and Missouri that ended as interstate cooperation increased. I'm nearly as liberal as they come, but it's hard to support unrelenting isolationism.
Eh? My +1 says "No Score +1 Bonus" and is always unchecked. I figured it would post at 3 and disallow moderation (for really inflammatory comments or something I guess). What a really need is a (score=1) button that just disallows any karma math yet still allows moderation. I realize I could post anon, but that shouldn't have to be the case.
Overrated? It wasn't even rated... I need an easy way to post things without using this blasted karma bonus. The no score +1 deal would be even worse. And I'm not even a karma whore...
Jesus, I just realized that the grammer in that post is worse than in the Zero Wing intro.
Someone already said $10 for 2 disks at frys. Hook me up! Paypal me at hensels.nospam@att.net without the nospam with your cent. Aha! The day is mine. Oh yeah, name = Stephanie Hensel by the way. Now the question is, will the penny be face up and give good luck, or quite the opposite?
Actually, I don't remember Iran-Contra. I was less than 10 years old :)
I still have to respectfully disagree and say that the CoS is a politician. At least to the extent that Condaleza Rice or many other cabinet members are - many cabinet members come from acadamia and not politics. Then again, judging by the political in-fighting at my future college, they might have more experience than most. I guess I just take a broader view of the word "politician" to include not just elected/confirmed officials, but also lobbyists, senior staff, etc.
By the way, thanks for helping me brush up on white house staff information for my AP Gov test Tuesday morning. It's all coming back to me now - Reagan's triangle of power (later to be modified), Carter's hands-on approach... excellent.
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I suppose I could be wrong, but I think placing drunken, post-buffet Vegas tourists mere feet away from a Picasso is a mistake in any light. Such a feat requires a tremendously intricate vomit-shield.
Good point on the "specifically thinking" bit. In response, I can just claim that I'm a walking, talking paradox. I've got to go fall up to my bed now. I have a minor final Bio test tomorrow morning.
Having worked as a student aide with the IT department in my district I can say, very incompetent. Suffice to say, we have 3 t1 lines for a district of moderate size and the connection is slower than my 56k modem. It has been like this for the entire school year (they installed gigabit switches to speed up the network and this was a minor side-effect). When it comes to security, there are a ton of flaws as well. For example, I could log onto my account on a Windows NT machine and browse anyone else's network folder. No hacking required. When I clicked on someone else's folder by accident it said something on the order of "would you like to become the owner of this folder" and I said yes. There you have it, I had access. I told an administrator and she said, "oh yeah, we know about that." They then decide to "crack down" and delete any file over a certain size in anyone's folder. Obviously, given the mindset of many highschool kids, a majority of the stuff deleted was illegal. They also, however, deleted files of kids working on projects in the computer department, movies made by kids on 3d Studio in drafting, etc. When they found that a computer was sharing a massive amount of "illegal" material and also found a folder on the computer's c: drive with my name on it, they blamed me. Of course, the admins didn't actually ask me about it, they instead told my teacher to "clean up the computer" or some tripe like that. Suffice to say, people are still running their divx server on that computer and watching The Big Lebowski during Meteorology (hell, half of the teachers play along and watch with them - in fact I haven't seen a single objection to piracy outside of the network admins bitching about a bandwidth loss - a problem which, as I said, is just because of a stupid mistake in the first place).
As far as more "constructive" punishments go - do those even exist? About the most "constructive" punishment I can imagine at our school is out-of-school suspension. I love punishing kids for skipping school by kicking them out of school for a few more days.
You have to consider that this is already quite old technology. In the future it will be possible to tell something to "paint in the style of picasso" and it will be done. Sure, it may just piece together concepts from his existing works, but it will LOOK like a Picasso - funky 3D painting and all. To think that this isn't inevitable is ignorant. Here, you're criticizing a 13-year-old image creation program. I think it's pretty damn ingenious given the period of development.
Regarding the Mirage, you should have walked out. At all the Vegas casinos they horribly overlight their art exhibits creating permanent damage. Specifically, I think that Paris and the Bellagio do this. The drunken gamblers would get confused at the low light level and lack of blinking slot machines otherwise.
Does it say that on the box? I never noticed. So I suppose the stores would then be agreeing to a shipping-box license by seeing that only after they remove the individual packages from the cardboard boxes they arrive in. On anoter level, the shippers would be agreeing to a container-wrap license as they don't see the shipping boxes within the containers provided by the manufacturer, etc. Obviously, this just goes to show how rediclous the whole shrink-wrapped license concept is. Hell, they have to give disclaimers at the end of radio ads - I don't see why they shouldn't have to verbally read you the EULA before you purchase the product.
Your average staffer may not have that much power, but the chief of staff is one of the most powerful people in Washington. To say that they aren't a politician just because they weren't confirmed or elected is a joke. If you say that, you are missing 99% of the politicians in Washington. Hell, I bet Bush's CoS has more power than he does :)
Your average college intern staffer (like those found in congressional offices, white house mail guys/tour guides, whatever) may not have much power, but don't think that the Chief of Staff is a peon just because the people's opinion doesn't give him/her authority.
It's nice that you can point out irony, but the poster wasn't wrong in the slightest. The Chief of Staff is a politician to the same level that a cabinet member / Judicial apointee / etc is. (H/Sh)e probably has more power than either during the time of their appointment as well. The Chief of Staff is responsible for more than the White House aides. The CoS also must arrange for the thousands of other executive branch run departments. Some of these jobs need Senate approval, some don't. Suffice to say, it's a demanding job and provides one with more power than almost any other in Washington.
No, you don't get a refund. With shrink-wrap licenses, you have to open the product before even viewing the license - most stores don't return opened software because of piracy issues.
As far as this being a Gilliam vehicle - I think the premise would get a bit worn after an hour and a half. What would be interesting is to get all the old pythons together and make meaning-of-life-esque movie with skits depicting the paradoxes of copyright enforcement.
It's not that they are bundling it that's the problem. It's that they have a monopoly and choose to solely bundle their browser. Like others have said, you aren't allowed to use one monopoly to get another. While a browser may be expected to come with a new computer, it is hardly an integral part of the operating system (though now MS has decided to make IE it's file browser apparently so I guess that's not the case. Then again, is a file manager even an integral part of an operating system?). In order to make it a fair browser market, they would have to seperate their browser from the operating system. One way to do this would be to sell it seperately and remove its cost from that of the Windows. Obviously, there are other ways to comply with antitrust law, but the basic idea here is that Microsoft is obviously using its OS monopoly to get a monopoly in browsers. This is even more obvious when you see how they petitioned OEMs to solely include Internet Explorer.
Gee whiz, let's whip out the magic time machine and zip back to 1929 to see how a free market works. Wow, putting greed in charge of America is definitely the way to go! A free market would work fine if people were universally ethical, but somehow, I doubt that's the case.
For example the last releases of Photoshop and Illustrator had a disastrous effect on my business. The artists couldn't deal with the sweeping changes made by Adobe.
:) - of course, Adobe has a much smaller market, so there must be a high cost (yeah, I realize you could counter by mentioning The Gimp here, but that wasn't made for a profit).
Hmmmm... why upgrade at all then? I really have trouble coming up with a task that requires Photoshop 6 over 5.5 - if the artists are used to 5.5, and you don't want to spend the cash to teach them 6, why did you fork over the $200/license to get 6? The only reason I can imagine is pressure from the artists themselves (reading reviews and then requesting the upgrade saying it would make their job easier or something).
As far as monolithic upgrades go, the companies need them in order to make their business model work. No one would buy a product just incrementally better than the original. This is why Microsoft releases few updates to their OS outside of stabalizing it. For Microsoft, this is especially true in their 9x/ME line of OS's because the entry cost is so cheap (well, relative to NT anyway). The monolithic update scheme is not specific to non-OS vendors. The reason that Apple, Sun, Linux vendors, etc can afford to present incremental upgrades is that they have none software-license-driven business models (hardware, hardware/services, and services respectively). Adobe and Microsoft don't have an alternate means of profiting off of Photoshop/Windows, so they must have either monolithic upgrades or a high cost. Microsoft uses one method for its 9x line, and another for NT. Adobe uses both
No, it just sends secret user info to MS every 5 minutes using the "critical update" as a brilliant rouse! :)
I know that Mandrake already has a package updater that works quite well. The only problem is that you have to get the entire new RPM and not just an upgrade package in most cases. It will, however, go to a Mandrake mirror and check all installed packages for updates for you. It doesn't have the singular "update" button feature that you want, and it doesn't have an auto-update feature as far as I can tell, but these would be minor modifications to the existing system.
You're right, but I'm sure that most professors still dole out a majority of their projects in individual form. I'm just saying that group projects certainly have a very good purpose. As a bass player, I know that both being a good player and a cooperative group member are equally important. Now, this is probably more the case with bass than, say, violin, but it is still a critical skill. Especially in a smaller group like a chamber orchestra or the like where you have to be intimately familiar with everyone's playing style. Not to mention playing bass in a jazz rythm section - leading the group is even more important than raw ability in that case. I'd be interested to know how many orchestras your qm prof participated in.
Which is the reason for, as someone else suggested, inner-group grading. Just like performance evaluations by the leaders of groups in the business world.
Face it, whatever job you get in the real world will require group interaction (well, perhaps with the exception of mortician). Sure, a Uni. group assignment isn't totally analagous to a real world one, but it is close enough. It gives you group experience which will undoubtedly be asked about in your job interviews and provides you with social interaction which, in many cases, is just as important a skill to have as technical knowledge. If you plan on working in the world of business, you need that skill.
Actually yeah. Plastic more or less = oil. I imagine that isn't the cause for the shortage though :)