"popular Edel artists such as Craig David and 2Step "
If these 'artists' are so popular, why haven't I heard of them? Are they Christian or black? And if I haven't heard of them, why in the heck would I want to pay for the service? And, why would I pay if I could still (presumably, if I wanted it), get the same crap on the free version?
No, I didn't say 'deserve'. Just like a woman who goes to a party dressed scantily doesn't 'deserve' to be raped. It's just something that you can do to protect yourself if you do so choose. He chose not to, and drove a tiny little car and paid the price.
I hate pop-up ads. I hope that NetZero wins and they enforce it. NetZero can have their popup ads, and I won't use NetZero. Every other web site/service can be popup free. Go, NetZero!
A. That's complicated and a pain in the ass.
B. You're not liable for credit card fraud. It's a US Law.
C. You ARE liable for fraud when you use your bank card.
D. Whenever you use a bank card, you lose interest because your money is deducted from checking instantly.
Bank cards are BAD ideas. They were introduced so that banks didn't have to be liable, and so that they could get their hands on your money instantly, without letting you learn the 1 months' interest.
Speaking as a successful developer with a Business degree, I can say that undergrad degrees are useless. I've known great developers who were art history majors. Programmers can be anyone, and the degree is irrelevant. Pick a major you like, and do that. The jobs will come easily if you're at all competent and you can speak English with going into hyperactive geek-speak.
I'm a big fan of Popular Power. It lets you choose between using your machines for profit-projects (you actually get paid once they start up), and non-profit projects. Right now, their current project is creating influenza vaccines. Nice Flash screen savers, to boot.
Contractors don't have this problem. Either A. They don't get promoted like this, or B. If they are, they can either take a big pay raise, or walk. Contracting eliminates the stress involved in 'permanent' jobs. Same duties, but more money, and no political bullshit.
True, there are a few PERL/Linux jobs out there, but not nearly as many as there are, say, VB jobs. PERL as a web development language, at least has been diminishing significantly in the past few years dues to ASP/CF/PHP. Now, if PERL can be written under the.NET umbrella, it could be as widely used as even VB (maybe).
Sounds like you need to learn how to install/use Visual Studio. Thousands of developers use it every day with no problems. Are you using DOS (Win 95/98/ME) by any chance? If so, that's your problem right there.
Again, Katz in all of his incredible, intelligent, splendor is wrong. I'm a member of several very successful virtual communities that are both personal and ongoing. Slashdot is about as personal as a McDonald's. That doesn't mean that other communities aren't.
I couldn't care less about C. What would I use C for? VB has an incredible IDE, so I install that. But more importantly, why would the average user installing Red Hat ever need the bloat of a C compiler??
Yes, it does come with a web server (IIS), several scripting languages (VBScript, JScript), a text editor (Wordpad), a basic graphics package (Photo editor), and yeah, it comes with Outlook Express. Some of them aren't the best of breed, but they're all free. AND they all easily fit on the install CD.
Red Hat is 2 CD's. And that doesn't even include the docs (on a 3rd CD!). That's massive. Talk about bloat. I just installed W2K Professional, and it easily fit on a single CD, and it's pretty useful straight off the install. What happened to Linux being small and fast?
So then are you regularly protesting your local library and schools about them not providing copies of 'Giant Jugs' and 'Bomb Making for Dummies'? The slippery slope argument just isn't valid here. Libraries and schools have remained fairly open about most material for a long time, while still restricting certain subjects. Just because it's Net related doesn't mean that that is going to change.
And more importantly, libraries and schools are providing this information (stuff on the Net) that wasn't even available a few years ago. If anything, the amount of material available to the public has grown massively in the past few years.
First some people only have access from school or public libraries. Consider that those in poorer areas are dependant on publicly provided internets. No other way to use the internet.
Well, by that same argument, poorer people cannot afford to buy their own porn. Should libraries and schools be supplying it for them?
Second most filters are horribly broken. Look through some of the past articles on the site for how horribly wrong the filters are. How many sites they block accidently. How often you can't gather information that you really should be able to.
True, but what other options are there?
Third there seems an inherent problem using public funds to limit any form of speech.
Again, back to the porn example. Should libraries and schools be providing porn? Are people protesting not being able to get 'teen cumsluts' at their local libary?
Fourth - finally - borrowing their arguments - think of the children.
Libraries and schools are privileges, not inherent rights. The government can control them any way they'd like. It would be different if the US gov't were trying to censor the Net as a whole (with this particular ruling), but they're not.
No, I'm not new here. Should I be subscribing to the official Slashdot doctrine?
No, it is too bad that kids might not be able to read the Masters and Johnson reports. I agree. Filters aren't perfect. But would you rather kids be going to libraries and schools to watch 'Ass fucking teen cumsluts'? Ideally, there could be perfect filters, but the world ain't perfect.
So? It's just in school and libraries. People can see whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes. Last I checked, you couldn't get porn in libraries or schools, either, but I don't hear anybody complaining about that. This is no different.
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"popular Edel artists such as Craig David and 2Step "
If these 'artists' are so popular, why haven't I heard of them? Are they Christian or black? And if I haven't heard of them, why in the heck would I want to pay for the service? And, why would I pay if I could still (presumably, if I wanted it), get the same crap on the free version?
That's what my girlfriend said.
If it does, that'll be my fault for driving in a tank-prone area without a tank.
No, I didn't say 'deserve'. Just like a woman who goes to a party dressed scantily doesn't 'deserve' to be raped. It's just something that you can do to protect yourself if you do so choose. He chose not to, and drove a tiny little car and paid the price.
I hate pop-up ads. I hope that NetZero wins and they enforce it. NetZero can have their popup ads, and I won't use NetZero. Every other web site/service can be popup free. Go, NetZero!
A. That's complicated and a pain in the ass. B. You're not liable for credit card fraud. It's a US Law. C. You ARE liable for fraud when you use your bank card. D. Whenever you use a bank card, you lose interest because your money is deducted from checking instantly.
Bank cards are BAD ideas. They were introduced so that banks didn't have to be liable, and so that they could get their hands on your money instantly, without letting you learn the 1 months' interest.
That's a great reason for not doing business with little kids. Speaking of which, aren't the /. guys just kids, too?...
And, last I checked, .NET was never projected to be available in 2000.
Speaking as a successful developer with a Business degree, I can say that undergrad degrees are useless. I've known great developers who were art history majors. Programmers can be anyone, and the degree is irrelevant. Pick a major you like, and do that. The jobs will come easily if you're at all competent and you can speak English with going into hyperactive geek-speak.
I'm a big fan of Popular Power. It lets you choose between using your machines for profit-projects (you actually get paid once they start up), and non-profit projects. Right now, their current project is creating influenza vaccines. Nice Flash screen savers, to boot.
Contractors don't have this problem. Either A. They don't get promoted like this, or B. If they are, they can either take a big pay raise, or walk. Contracting eliminates the stress involved in 'permanent' jobs. Same duties, but more money, and no political bullshit.
True, there are a few PERL/Linux jobs out there, but not nearly as many as there are, say, VB jobs. PERL as a web development language, at least has been diminishing significantly in the past few years dues to ASP/CF/PHP. Now, if PERL can be written under the .NET umbrella, it could be as widely used as even VB (maybe).
Sure you do, AC.
If anything, .NET saves PERL from obscurity.
Sounds like you need to learn how to install/use Visual Studio. Thousands of developers use it every day with no problems. Are you using DOS (Win 95/98/ME) by any chance? If so, that's your problem right there.
Again, Katz in all of his incredible, intelligent, splendor is wrong. I'm a member of several very successful virtual communities that are both personal and ongoing. Slashdot is about as personal as a McDonald's. That doesn't mean that other communities aren't.
No. I installed it. Connected to the Net, and I was happy. What else does the average user need?
Brillant. You're, what, 12 years old?
I couldn't care less about C. What would I use C for? VB has an incredible IDE, so I install that. But more importantly, why would the average user installing Red Hat ever need the bloat of a C compiler??
Yes, it does come with a web server (IIS), several scripting languages (VBScript, JScript), a text editor (Wordpad), a basic graphics package (Photo editor), and yeah, it comes with Outlook Express. Some of them aren't the best of breed, but they're all free. AND they all easily fit on the install CD.
Red Hat is 2 CD's. And that doesn't even include the docs (on a 3rd CD!). That's massive. Talk about bloat. I just installed W2K Professional, and it easily fit on a single CD, and it's pretty useful straight off the install. What happened to Linux being small and fast?
So then are you regularly protesting your local library and schools about them not providing copies of 'Giant Jugs' and 'Bomb Making for Dummies'? The slippery slope argument just isn't valid here. Libraries and schools have remained fairly open about most material for a long time, while still restricting certain subjects. Just because it's Net related doesn't mean that that is going to change.
And more importantly, libraries and schools are providing this information (stuff on the Net) that wasn't even available a few years ago. If anything, the amount of material available to the public has grown massively in the past few years.
First some people only have access from school or public libraries. Consider that those in poorer areas are dependant on publicly provided internets. No other way to use the internet.
Well, by that same argument, poorer people cannot afford to buy their own porn. Should libraries and schools be supplying it for them?
Second most filters are horribly broken. Look through some of the past articles on the site for how horribly wrong the filters are. How many sites they block accidently. How often you can't gather information that you really should be able to.
True, but what other options are there?
Third there seems an inherent problem using public funds to limit any form of speech.
Again, back to the porn example. Should libraries and schools be providing porn? Are people protesting not being able to get 'teen cumsluts' at their local libary?
Fourth - finally - borrowing their arguments - think of the children.
Libraries and schools are privileges, not inherent rights. The government can control them any way they'd like. It would be different if the US gov't were trying to censor the Net as a whole (with this particular ruling), but they're not.
No, I'm not new here. Should I be subscribing to the official Slashdot doctrine?
No, it is too bad that kids might not be able to read the Masters and Johnson reports. I agree. Filters aren't perfect. But would you rather kids be going to libraries and schools to watch 'Ass fucking teen cumsluts'? Ideally, there could be perfect filters, but the world ain't perfect.
So? It's just in school and libraries. People can see whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes. Last I checked, you couldn't get porn in libraries or schools, either, but I don't hear anybody complaining about that. This is no different.