So if its worth selling a book in India for 2 dollars, what's that say about the markup in American university settings?
And can you really blame a college student for being upset about the price difference when there's absolutely no competition by price, rather competition for the professor's attention?
Three groups were tested via a simple survey about their agressive traits for about five weeks. During those five weeks one of the groups was asked to play Street Fighter II on a regular basis, presumably in a controlled environment. The second group was asked to play Lemmings, on the same exposure level as the SF2 people. The final group was the control group. They were not asked to play any games in lab. I cannot recall what the rules of the outside lab behavior were, like perhaps no videogames other than during observation.
The experiment was designed to test two different kinds of exposure to violence: violence as a means (and glorification, I suppose) and violence as a result of failure. As anyone who's played an aggrovating game can tell you, the Lemmings group was far more violent after playing than before. The control group didn't exhibit any significant difference (supposedly) and the SF2 group (supposedly) had a small increase in violent activity.
That the SF2 people were more violent might shock your "hard-core" gamer, who argues on about how games promote catharsis, to most psychologists, it came as no little surprise. I believe the study compared it to other studies involving violent movies as being somewhat the same. What I found interesting was that the newspaper I read said the study concluded that exposure to violence as a punishment was far more damaging to the human psyche. Given the nature of Lemmings, I would imagine that the study noted that a more likely cause was the difficulty and frustrating nature of the puzzle based game.
Of course, we all know how much to trust science from a newspaper!
The people in charge of managing elections were promised paperless voting. And they really do want it. It means less hassle canvassing votes. It means less hassle storing them. It means less paper purchased for ballots. It means less worry about paper ballot security.
Additionally, in the minds of election officials, there is a "list" of nice features, ordered by priority. Assistance for the vision impaired is high on the list in many places. Assistance for non-English speakers is another desired feature for some locations.
Those little old ladies? They're part of the women's league or some such. I don't remember if thats the exact name of their organization, but I do remember that they're actually against the idea of requiring a paper trail. That's not to say the individual members believe this, but that the official position is such. These sorts of positions are usually written by a select few without consulting the people they represent, and apparently more than one letter of protest has been sent to these select few in power.
And if you're supposed to be putting your ballot in the box, and the ballot is printed in a locally obscure language, how anonymous is sole reader of that language in the precinct?
The comments seem a little too poetic, really. And between the heavy sarcasm ("John: Yeah, let's watch the lamp. It's more fun and less predictable.") and the flip flop between naieve and the cereberal comments from the same person ("they put quarters in there? [pointing at console]" vs " Maybe this is what seafood will do in a thousand years." Not to mention whoever knew that they had to dump off extra copies of E.T.
And that argument is completely orthogonal to the GNU/Linux one. The GNU/Linux dispute is that Stallman would like people to call it "GNU/Linux" as it is commonly distributed with GNU tools, and the recommended compiler is the GNU toolchain. It probably does attract RMS that the GPL'd kernel would make an attractive addition to the GNU collection, but its only an inferred argument, never stated afaik.
You might be closer to the truth than you think. A Communist nation is on America's Most Feared Nation list; Congress is on a checks and balances vacation to secure their constituants from terrorists. Bush has sort of decided that the missle defense treaty should be ignored.
There are some interesting differences: instead of a Cuban Missle Crisis, we have a North Korean Missle Ignorance. But we do have a significant interest in Taiwan. Rather than a Vietnam war, we have an Iraqi Occupation. And of course, we have a hell of an apparent edge in space arms.
Truthfully, I'd like to hope that the American leaders (and populace) alongside Chinese leaders (and populace) recognize the benefits of peace. I do worry that some day China will be taken off of the Normal Trade Relations List (aka Most Favored Nation), something that would not only reverse Kant's democratic progress theory, but probably result in triggering a slow downward spiral of relations. On a similar note, there are likely to still be elements within the army who do not wish to see the kind of leadership with a term length vision, to put it in the kindest way I know.
Frozen Bubble (a very similar game to Bubble Ice Age, but free) has a colorblind option, which puts shapes inside the bubbles for you, as well as coloring.
Tetris Attack also used the shape-color system, presumably to help with colorblind. It pops up most frequently in games where color matters heavily, but still not nearly enough. The freely available CrackAttack (a GPL knockoff) plays much like Tetris Attack, but does not offer shapes in addition to colors on their pieces. It might be worthwhile to redo the blocks, since even the author admits they're about 500 vertices as is.
After seeing this article, I found a nifty webpage discussing design issues for many sorts of disabilities. Interestingly, the author recommends ignoring adolescents, because they prefer social games. I would have thought that incorporating multiplayer aspects would have been a wiser choice, since it only broadens market appeal, and makes you look at game balance harder.
On the other hand, most people think of him as powerful because he's the Microsoft figurehead. Very often, people forget that the actions of a company are not decided by one man alone. It takes people to come up with ideas, people to evaluate them, people to evaluate the evaluations, people to describe the evaluations in a short manner for important figureheads, and people to actually do the ideas. So there is a fundamental attribution error going on, if people see Microsoft's consistant dominance, and think, "Bill Gates did this alone."
Linus has the distinction of not having any subordinates to summarize and what not. This comes as a consequence of not actually operating a business around his own software. Indeed, one could compare the various distrobutions of Linux, with their own custom source trees, to different people and ideas. But they all originate from his managed source, patched to run the way they like. When he applies a patch, it means nearly every vendor in town will be using it. That is a key difference; his decisions affect the many companies selling and support Linux. Nobody else is in quite the position as he is, especially now that Alan Cox is stepping away for a while.
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Nothing in the irc protocol facilitates or encourages the sharing and finding of copyrighted material. Hosting an IRC BOT (HUUUUUUGE difference) can draw you ire. KC Geek runs their own irc server, and has done so without incident. If you build a text based protocol on top of irc, as mIRC and other scriptings do, you are not providing a centralized search database, nor are you providing any content.
Think about what you're saying; if your logic was sound, then the existance of AIMster would mean that AIM was exactly like Naptser.
Well, profile and email account do indicate that I attend KSU, but since you have such a cool nick, I'll dignify your comment with a reply.
1) I didn't say that the estimates were realistic.
2) As a student, I still enjoy benefits. I'm under my parent's coverage, as you mentioned. For a long time I didn't think benefits were worthwhile. But as I'm sitting here with a cold, its looking a lot more useful now. You're right that the student body depresses wages in areas around a University. I have seen a few jobs that pay well, but they are beyond my personal expertise, having never worked in LabView nor working towards a Mechanical engineering degree.
3) I never implied recieving the sum of money and benefits. Just that you don't get any as a contracter.
4) I thought we were talking fresh college graduates, not college freshmen. When students graduate, they have an expectation that they will be earning far more money. Hell, my roommate picked up an internship over the summer for like 15 an hour. Thats unheard of on campus. 15 an hour to plug together Java servlets, with the expectation that your work will be thrown away. As the Ask Slashdotter has significant experience in the area the company is interested in, there will be very little training. In fact, less than using their own employees. Hell, they approached *him*.
Really, he's in a solid position. The only thing he needs to be worried about is them leaving the table. As every salesman knows, as long as everyone's still talking the deal isn't gone. So the real concern here is sticker shocking them away for good, or a caving on price too quickly. But as long as everyone's amicable, theres no reason to think "at least I'm not working at McDonalds for $7/hr.
And you're completely ignoring the BASIC FOUNDATION of why this is USEFUL: other SERVICES only have to WAIT on those they DEPEND on. Does loading X require a working DHCP lease? God, I hope not! So what happens is, that fundamental property of modern operating systems, "multitasking" switches between services starting in parallel.
For the record, right now my init system waits for a dhcp lease before making progress. In essence, everything is started up as if it depends on everything before it. In reality, they often don't. Maybe you think that startup screen is nifty, but most people who've seen init booting my desktop think that 1) its slow 2) its crappy. They just might be right.
Theres a couple reasons that they might charge that much ($100/hour). First off, theres no benefits. Thats a large but often forgotten part of compensation. Secondly, there's cost of living. It seems that a disproportionate amount of visiters to technical sites are from California. Far higher cost of living. Third, there's usually haggle room built in. Name 25/hour and you're in a pickle if they ask for half that. Fourth, it's a contract job. Not full time employment that you both expect to last. These sorts of on demand workers charge more because you're available immediately. A frequently cited rule is the "law of four." Consultants should charge about four times as much for the same job that a full time worker would make.
That last one is something to think about, working a quarter of the year for the same overall pay as your peers. But the little things eat you alive. Employer based benefits can be more cost-effective, and contractors move around a lot. You can't rent a car from most responsible rentalships until you're about 25, so that means a lot of wear and tear on the contractor's car and a lot of stress on the driver/navigator.
They're reasons, but not solid reasons. The fact that the programmer in question would be retaining rights to the code means that the company won't be building equity in code (of course, most code never sells for much). So the price ought to vary based on your own utility for the code. If you want the code in your own personal distrobution, then you might consider mentioning alongside a lower quote than they might expect. On the other hand, if you don't think they understand the GPL or have no intentions of honoring it, then you might need to save up some money for legal fees. Good lawyers with GPL experience are rare.
Not so much broke as just less efficient than it could be. For some, rebooting is a rare occurance, and parallazing the boot process will do little. For developers, its a win-lose. If what you want to retest needs a reboot, then you'd love it. But the parallal execution can make debugging startup a pain.
Who this really benefits are the people who don't leave their computer on every moment possible. The people who don't like the noise; the people who are concious about their Mean Time between failures; the people who are concerned about electricial consumption. Not to mention people like me who dual boot.
Why should companies be prevented from broadcasting at all? If a channel sucks then people will surely stop watching, even though they'd likely try to constantly overlap stations with less advertising content (more viewers there!. Just let the market decide how electromagnetic interference gets dealt with.
Several of my professors are in the process of writing their own book. They're not done yet. "In the meantime, here's a free digital copy!" Of course, they're in.ps, and heafty to print, come with no index, and are added to daily. What I wouldn't give for a fucking hardcopy when I'm trying to figure out how to turn this professor's bizarre proof into an SML program, with his beta ForLan tools.
I recalled learning in one of those silly 4th grade news slide reels that the Sahara was shrinking, given NASA satellite scans of vegitation. Perhaps its just one of the up years. Apparently the Sahara isn't shrinking, but it isn't growing either.
I'm hardly an expert at this, but my understanding is that many of the African famine countries are manufactured. Its far easier to maintain a dormant populace when you control the food. If a dictatorship that hoards all the food can be called capitalist, then at the very least we should need to include the notion of a democratic capitalist society.
The Sahara is gradually shrinking as vegitation grows. Advances in technology and just general luck of weather over climate are likely causes. If your hypothetical farmer is allowed to have one of those Genetically Modified sacks of grain, that are designed to grow in harsh conditions (something most dictators are afraid of), then your American might stand a chance. Most African leaders who ban the GM foods repeat that the foods could be dangerous for human consuption. Perhaps its a possibility, but as long as the grains don't produce any chemicals that react in the blood stream into precpitate, the danger is very unlikely. The real and uncited danger is dependence on Monsanto grains that do not produce offspring.
In short, famine is the result of human considerations, not a matter of the land.
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For Levin, it was a third tour at Hopkins; he received a bachelor's in 1947 and a master's in sanitary engineering a year later.
And I always thought that a janitor was an entry level position.
So if its worth selling a book in India for 2 dollars, what's that say about the markup in American university settings?
And can you really blame a college student for being upset about the price difference when there's absolutely no competition by price, rather competition for the professor's attention?
If you don't care about cutting all links between the voter and the vote, why not just hold a public vote?
You're not running OpenBSD, are you?
Three groups were tested via a simple survey about their agressive traits for about five weeks. During those five weeks one of the groups was asked to play Street Fighter II on a regular basis, presumably in a controlled environment. The second group was asked to play Lemmings, on the same exposure level as the SF2 people. The final group was the control group. They were not asked to play any games in lab. I cannot recall what the rules of the outside lab behavior were, like perhaps no videogames other than during observation.
The experiment was designed to test two different kinds of exposure to violence: violence as a means (and glorification, I suppose) and violence as a result of failure. As anyone who's played an aggrovating game can tell you, the Lemmings group was far more violent after playing than before. The control group didn't exhibit any significant difference (supposedly) and the SF2 group (supposedly) had a small increase in violent activity.
That the SF2 people were more violent might shock your "hard-core" gamer, who argues on about how games promote catharsis, to most psychologists, it came as no little surprise. I believe the study compared it to other studies involving violent movies as being somewhat the same. What I found interesting was that the newspaper I read said the study concluded that exposure to violence as a punishment was far more damaging to the human psyche. Given the nature of Lemmings, I would imagine that the study noted that a more likely cause was the difficulty and frustrating nature of the puzzle based game.
Of course, we all know how much to trust science from a newspaper!
The people in charge of managing elections were promised paperless voting. And they really do want it. It means less hassle canvassing votes. It means less hassle storing them. It means less paper purchased for ballots. It means less worry about paper ballot security.
Additionally, in the minds of election officials, there is a "list" of nice features, ordered by priority. Assistance for the vision impaired is high on the list in many places. Assistance for non-English speakers is another desired feature for some locations.
Those little old ladies? They're part of the women's league or some such. I don't remember if thats the exact name of their organization, but I do remember that they're actually against the idea of requiring a paper trail. That's not to say the individual members believe this, but that the official position is such. These sorts of positions are usually written by a select few without consulting the people they represent, and apparently more than one letter of protest has been sent to these select few in power.
And if you're supposed to be putting your ballot in the box, and the ballot is printed in a locally obscure language, how anonymous is sole reader of that language in the precinct?
The comments seem a little too poetic, really. And between the heavy sarcasm ("John: Yeah, let's watch the lamp. It's more fun and less predictable.") and the flip flop between naieve and the cereberal comments from the same person ("they put quarters in there? [pointing at console]" vs " Maybe this is what seafood will do in a thousand years." Not to mention whoever knew that they had to dump off extra copies of E.T.
And that argument is completely orthogonal to the GNU/Linux one. The GNU/Linux dispute is that Stallman would like people to call it "GNU/Linux" as it is commonly distributed with GNU tools, and the recommended compiler is the GNU toolchain. It probably does attract RMS that the GPL'd kernel would make an attractive addition to the GNU collection, but its only an inferred argument, never stated afaik.
You might be closer to the truth than you think. A Communist nation is on America's Most Feared Nation list; Congress is on a checks and balances vacation to secure their constituants from terrorists. Bush has sort of decided that the missle defense treaty should be ignored.
There are some interesting differences: instead of a Cuban Missle Crisis, we have a North Korean Missle Ignorance. But we do have a significant interest in Taiwan. Rather than a Vietnam war, we have an Iraqi Occupation. And of course, we have a hell of an apparent edge in space arms.
Truthfully, I'd like to hope that the American leaders (and populace) alongside Chinese leaders (and populace) recognize the benefits of peace. I do worry that some day China will be taken off of the Normal Trade Relations List (aka Most Favored Nation), something that would not only reverse Kant's democratic progress theory, but probably result in triggering a slow downward spiral of relations. On a similar note, there are likely to still be elements within the army who do not wish to see the kind of leadership with a term length vision, to put it in the kindest way I know.
Makes me wonder why I don't hear about GNU/BSD...
Tetris Attack also used the shape-color system, presumably to help with colorblind. It pops up most frequently in games where color matters heavily, but still not nearly enough. The freely available CrackAttack (a GPL knockoff) plays much like Tetris Attack, but does not offer shapes in addition to colors on their pieces. It might be worthwhile to redo the blocks, since even the author admits they're about 500 vertices as is. After seeing this article, I found a nifty webpage discussing design issues for many sorts of disabilities. Interestingly, the author recommends ignoring adolescents, because they prefer social games. I would have thought that incorporating multiplayer aspects would have been a wiser choice, since it only broadens market appeal, and makes you look at game balance harder.
But what exactly does this mean for all those copies they give out to the press to "review?"
Only because you can't download pets off the internet... yet!
Q4: How do I know you aren't working for the man?
A: We're not, we promise.
Q5: HA! Thats exactly what I'd expect the man to say!
A: Hey, thats not a question..
On the other hand, most people think of him as powerful because he's the Microsoft figurehead. Very often, people forget that the actions of a company are not decided by one man alone. It takes people to come up with ideas, people to evaluate them, people to evaluate the evaluations, people to describe the evaluations in a short manner for important figureheads, and people to actually do the ideas. So there is a fundamental attribution error going on, if people see Microsoft's consistant dominance, and think, "Bill Gates did this alone."
Linus has the distinction of not having any subordinates to summarize and what not. This comes as a consequence of not actually operating a business around his own software. Indeed, one could compare the various distrobutions of Linux, with their own custom source trees, to different people and ideas. But they all originate from his managed source, patched to run the way they like. When he applies a patch, it means nearly every vendor in town will be using it. That is a key difference; his decisions affect the many companies selling and support Linux. Nobody else is in quite the position as he is, especially now that Alan Cox is stepping away for a while.
Nothing in the irc protocol facilitates or encourages the sharing and finding of copyrighted material. Hosting an IRC BOT (HUUUUUUGE difference) can draw you ire. KC Geek runs their own irc server, and has done so without incident. If you build a text based protocol on top of irc, as mIRC and other scriptings do, you are not providing a centralized search database, nor are you providing any content.
Think about what you're saying; if your logic was sound, then the existance of AIMster would mean that AIM was exactly like Naptser.
Well, profile and email account do indicate that I attend KSU, but since you have such a cool nick, I'll dignify your comment with a reply.
1) I didn't say that the estimates were realistic.
2) As a student, I still enjoy benefits. I'm under my parent's coverage, as you mentioned. For a long time I didn't think benefits were worthwhile. But as I'm sitting here with a cold, its looking a lot more useful now. You're right that the student body depresses wages in areas around a University. I have seen a few jobs that pay well, but they are beyond my personal expertise, having never worked in LabView nor working towards a Mechanical engineering degree.
3) I never implied recieving the sum of money and benefits. Just that you don't get any as a contracter.
4) I thought we were talking fresh college graduates, not college freshmen. When students graduate, they have an expectation that they will be earning far more money. Hell, my roommate picked up an internship over the summer for like 15 an hour. Thats unheard of on campus. 15 an hour to plug together Java servlets, with the expectation that your work will be thrown away. As the Ask Slashdotter has significant experience in the area the company is interested in, there will be very little training. In fact, less than using their own employees. Hell, they approached *him*.
Really, he's in a solid position. The only thing he needs to be worried about is them leaving the table. As every salesman knows, as long as everyone's still talking the deal isn't gone. So the real concern here is sticker shocking them away for good, or a caving on price too quickly. But as long as everyone's amicable, theres no reason to think "at least I'm not working at McDonalds for $7/hr.
And you're completely ignoring the BASIC FOUNDATION of why this is USEFUL: other SERVICES only have to WAIT on those they DEPEND on. Does loading X require a working DHCP lease? God, I hope not! So what happens is, that fundamental property of modern operating systems, "multitasking" switches between services starting in parallel.
For the record, right now my init system waits for a dhcp lease before making progress. In essence, everything is started up as if it depends on everything before it. In reality, they often don't. Maybe you think that startup screen is nifty, but most people who've seen init booting my desktop think that 1) its slow 2) its crappy. They just might be right.
Theres a couple reasons that they might charge that much ($100/hour). First off, theres no benefits. Thats a large but often forgotten part of compensation. Secondly, there's cost of living. It seems that a disproportionate amount of visiters to technical sites are from California. Far higher cost of living. Third, there's usually haggle room built in. Name 25/hour and you're in a pickle if they ask for half that. Fourth, it's a contract job. Not full time employment that you both expect to last. These sorts of on demand workers charge more because you're available immediately. A frequently cited rule is the "law of four." Consultants should charge about four times as much for the same job that a full time worker would make.
That last one is something to think about, working a quarter of the year for the same overall pay as your peers. But the little things eat you alive. Employer based benefits can be more cost-effective, and contractors move around a lot. You can't rent a car from most responsible rentalships until you're about 25, so that means a lot of wear and tear on the contractor's car and a lot of stress on the driver/navigator.
They're reasons, but not solid reasons. The fact that the programmer in question would be retaining rights to the code means that the company won't be building equity in code (of course, most code never sells for much). So the price ought to vary based on your own utility for the code. If you want the code in your own personal distrobution, then you might consider mentioning alongside a lower quote than they might expect. On the other hand, if you don't think they understand the GPL or have no intentions of honoring it, then you might need to save up some money for legal fees. Good lawyers with GPL experience are rare.
Not so much broke as just less efficient than it could be. For some, rebooting is a rare occurance, and parallazing the boot process will do little. For developers, its a win-lose. If what you want to retest needs a reboot, then you'd love it. But the parallal execution can make debugging startup a pain.
Who this really benefits are the people who don't leave their computer on every moment possible. The people who don't like the noise; the people who are concious about their Mean Time between failures; the people who are concerned about electricial consumption. Not to mention people like me who dual boot.
Why should companies be prevented from broadcasting at all? If a channel sucks then people will surely stop watching, even though they'd likely try to constantly overlap stations with less advertising content (more viewers there!. Just let the market decide how electromagnetic interference gets dealt with.
Several of my professors are in the process of writing their own book. They're not done yet. "In the meantime, here's a free digital copy!" Of course, they're in .ps, and heafty to print, come with no index, and are added to daily. What I wouldn't give for a fucking hardcopy when I'm trying to figure out how to turn this professor's bizarre proof into an SML program, with his beta ForLan tools.
I recalled learning in one of those silly 4th grade news slide reels that the Sahara was shrinking, given NASA satellite scans of vegitation. Perhaps its just one of the up years. Apparently the Sahara isn't shrinking, but it isn't growing either.
I'm hardly an expert at this, but my understanding is that many of the African famine countries are manufactured. Its far easier to maintain a dormant populace when you control the food. If a dictatorship that hoards all the food can be called capitalist, then at the very least we should need to include the notion of a democratic capitalist society.
The Sahara is gradually shrinking as vegitation grows. Advances in technology and just general luck of weather over climate are likely causes. If your hypothetical farmer is allowed to have one of those Genetically Modified sacks of grain, that are designed to grow in harsh conditions (something most dictators are afraid of), then your American might stand a chance. Most African leaders who ban the GM foods repeat that the foods could be dangerous for human consuption. Perhaps its a possibility, but as long as the grains don't produce any chemicals that react in the blood stream into precpitate, the danger is very unlikely. The real and uncited danger is dependence on Monsanto grains that do not produce offspring.
In short, famine is the result of human considerations, not a matter of the land.