Is it just me, or are these guys coming completely out of left field? They just started the company in March, they just shipped the first version of their distro this month, and now they're filing for IPO?
Anyone have any info on the execs for this company? Or the distro itself for that matter?
Okay, educated public is one thing. But colleges aren't the place to do it for most people. How many people do you remember from your school days who just drifted through school, not really caring about learning, just because their parents told them they need a college degree to get anywhere in life?
Colleges right now are full of students that can be broken down into three categories
people looking for a certificate to get them a job (the future workforce)
people looking to further their knowledge in a subject in hopes of furthering that knowledge (the future academicians)
people who couldn't come up with a better idea (the people who don't belong in college)
For group 1, I really wish the US could develop respectable vocational schools. The american public has too much of a derogatory opinion of these schools for it to ever happen, but it's a nice idea. In this category I include everything from doctors to programmers, electricians to pilots. This group should constitute the bulk of society who simply want to learn a skill and get a job.
For group 2, I include those people who are interested in pushing the boundaries of the fields they are interested in. I would also include some poeple who would like to eventually work, but want a really thorough understanding of their entire field. This group would include most of the full-time grad students and professors across the country.
For group 3, let them get a job and take night classes until they know what they want to do. Hell, let them sign up for something in one of the other two, and switch if they don't like it. Most of the people in this group would likely end up in group 1.
And as for needing an educated public, that's what reading is for. There's no need to have people going full-time to school if all they want to do is broaden their horizons by reading a few good books. Let them take night classes. Let them read the newspaper. Let them get together to discuss the issues that affect their daily lives.
Okay, so maybe I've lived an isolated life. I was born and raised in Boston. Went to college in Boston. Spent a year in Hamburg, but that's it. So I'm honestly wondering where all these censorship folks have been hiding all my life.
Seriously, how many people out there actually know someone who thinks we need a rating system to "save the kids" from the big bad internet? And how many of those people who support a rating system realize that it will rapidly be turned into a means for censorship, as the movie ratings were?
I really can't seem to understand why people feel the need to put ratings on everything. Don't they realize that it serves no purpose than to censor? If you think it's going to do any good to any kids, ask yourself a few questions.
Will unsupervised children really be prevented from access to material they "shouldn't" be accessing?
Will the parents who are doing their job and managing what their child has access to really use these labels?
Who will be doing the rating?
What if you disagree with how they rate a certain site? If you think the rating is too soft? Too harsh?
How much of the material that kids will be prevented from seeing is actually harmful to them?
And then comes the last question, why do you feel the need to meddle with other people's lives? Do your job as a parent, and let me do mine.
So we should cut funding even further to an already severely underfunded NASA in order to try to put more people who don't belong there through college?
You can't be serious. The amount of money NASA receives is a piddling amount compared to the national budget as a whole. And because we're already committed to putting $X towards the ISS, any cuts in NASA's budgets mean that some other project has to suffer. As for not "needing" to be able to live in space in the next 50 years, what does that have to do with anything? The space race was a good way to spur us on, but we shouldn't be stopping just because we don't have any competitors any more.
And as for putting NASA's budget towards education, maybe we should first look at reforming a system that says everyone needs to go to college to get a decent job, and instead look at bolstering the quality of elementary and high school educations, as well as that of vocational schools. College isn't for everyone, and it sure as hell isn't necessary for a lot of fields we seem to think require it.
Okay, clearly you haven't bothered to look any deeper than a really superficial business article. The base service for BA's DSL is only a 640 Kbps downlink, but you can get up to 7 Mbps downlink, which is roughly a T2.
Now, with a cable modem, you can get up to a max of 1.5 Mbps, but if you've got a busy segment, it goes way down. Checked their site quickly, but they don't list their guaranteed minimum bandwidth. Typical cable modem minimum is only about 300 Kbps, though.
You might want to let people pick the order in which the boxes will be displayed when they pick which ones they want to see. Moving them up and down one space at a time is probably generating a lot of your load, and is just a pain in the ass.
Way cool new feature, though. Looks like I don't need my geek list anymore.
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Is it just me, or are these guys coming completely out of left field? They just started the company in March, they just shipped the first version of their distro this month, and now they're filing for IPO?
Anyone have any info on the execs for this company? Or the distro itself for that matter?
Okay, educated public is one thing. But colleges aren't the place to do it for most people. How many people do you remember from your school days who just drifted through school, not really caring about learning, just because their parents told them they need a college degree to get anywhere in life?
Colleges right now are full of students that can be broken down into three categories
For group 1, I really wish the US could develop respectable vocational schools. The american public has too much of a derogatory opinion of these schools for it to ever happen, but it's a nice idea. In this category I include everything from doctors to programmers, electricians to pilots. This group should constitute the bulk of society who simply want to learn a skill and get a job.
For group 2, I include those people who are interested in pushing the boundaries of the fields they are interested in. I would also include some poeple who would like to eventually work, but want a really thorough understanding of their entire field. This group would include most of the full-time grad students and professors across the country.
For group 3, let them get a job and take night classes until they know what they want to do. Hell, let them sign up for something in one of the other two, and switch if they don't like it. Most of the people in this group would likely end up in group 1.
And as for needing an educated public, that's what reading is for. There's no need to have people going full-time to school if all they want to do is broaden their horizons by reading a few good books. Let them take night classes. Let them read the newspaper. Let them get together to discuss the issues that affect their daily lives.
Okay, so maybe I've lived an isolated life. I was born and raised in Boston. Went to college in Boston. Spent a year in Hamburg, but that's it. So I'm honestly wondering where all these censorship folks have been hiding all my life.
Seriously, how many people out there actually know someone who thinks we need a rating system to "save the kids" from the big bad internet? And how many of those people who support a rating system realize that it will rapidly be turned into a means for censorship, as the movie ratings were?
I really can't seem to understand why people feel the need to put ratings on everything. Don't they realize that it serves no purpose than to censor? If you think it's going to do any good to any kids, ask yourself a few questions.
And then comes the last question, why do you feel the need to meddle with other people's lives? Do your job as a parent, and let me do mine.
So we should cut funding even further to an already severely underfunded NASA in order to try to put more people who don't belong there through college?
You can't be serious. The amount of money NASA receives is a piddling amount compared to the national budget as a whole. And because we're already committed to putting $X towards the ISS, any cuts in NASA's budgets mean that some other project has to suffer. As for not "needing" to be able to live in space in the next 50 years, what does that have to do with anything? The space race was a good way to spur us on, but we shouldn't be stopping just because we don't have any competitors any more.
And as for putting NASA's budget towards education, maybe we should first look at reforming a system that says everyone needs to go to college to get a decent job, and instead look at bolstering the quality of elementary and high school educations, as well as that of vocational schools. College isn't for everyone, and it sure as hell isn't necessary for a lot of fields we seem to think require it.
Okay, clearly you haven't bothered to look any deeper than a really superficial business article. The base service for BA's DSL is only a 640 Kbps downlink, but you can get up to 7 Mbps downlink, which is roughly a T2.
Now, with a cable modem, you can get up to a max of 1.5 Mbps, but if you've got a busy segment, it goes way down. Checked their site quickly, but they don't list their guaranteed minimum bandwidth. Typical cable modem minimum is only about 300 Kbps, though.
Granted, DSL is pricier, but it's worth it.
You might want to let people pick the order in which the boxes will be displayed when they pick which ones they want to see. Moving them up and down one space at a time is probably generating a lot of your load, and is just a pain in the ass.
Way cool new feature, though. Looks like I don't need my geek list anymore.
Okay, totally off-topic, but this has been bugging me for a while. What exactly is a wanker, anyway?