I agree. The "Virtual University" has got to be the lamest idea I've heard of since White Castle Burgers. The University is supposed to be a place where people get together, face-to-face like. In Europe and parts of Asia, the biomass of idealistic young adults at the U also functions as a permanent challenge to local governents. Neither can happen if everyone is at home facing a screen.
Unless the virtual university was started by an existing school, the only people likely to pony up that kind of dough would be producers of mass-market consumer goods.
Just take a long look at the "well rounded" education you get from Microsoft in their MCSE program.
If I have a 6-pack of Pepsi, and I drink two Pepsi's, how many Pepsi's have I enjoyed?
In my experience, the choice between IBM and Sun has never come down to power scalability or price. It usually comes down to the UNIX admins flatly refusing to work with something as evil as AIX.
Or the Halloween episode of the Simpsons where everyone melted down their weapons, and the aliens were able to take over the earth with a stick and a slingshot.
I think any animal born without claws, fangs, or protective hide should be allowed to carry a weapon of some sort.
I propose that pointing out once again the subtle difference between free speech and free beer to the readers of Slashdot is lame filler not unlike hollering ME TOO on AOL.
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That's the American Southeast. Meesa think yousa watchin' too much Footloose.
Most people have never seen the outside of this area of the country much less the rest of the world.
I suppose BYU Hawaii and BYU Jerusalem are exclusively for out-of-staters. Lowest wage rates, spending on pupils, even lower that Alabama and Mississippi.
This is because we have the most children per capita. Also, we don't require things like cops and metal detectors in our schools.
You're talking about the state that brought us Novell, Word Perfect, Caldera, the television, the first man-made industrial diamond, and the Cold Fusion hoax. The MS vs. Caldera antitrust case was also filed initially in Utah. Granted, there isn't a HUGE Linux scene (aside from the companies I mentioned), but then again, we don't have all that many people:)
It appears Linus Torvalds has a handler, which must mean this whole Linux thing is mainstream so forget about the revolution and get back to work on your Windows desktops.
It appears the grammar checkers at zdnet are all broken so forget about punctuation and feel free to write grotesquely run on sentences with no punctuation in wild abandon but you cant really complain bacause hey if we really knew how to write we'd get a real job at a respectable publication and stop trying to poop on the linuxux guys parade.
I forsee a day when people will post info directly to slashdot without mucking about with the high-priced intermediaries. Like: "Hi!, I'm Linus. Let me tell you about what we're thinking about putting into kernel 2.3.x!"
As it is, I'd say maybe 50% of "news" comes from sources other than news publications.
"I still believe that people go to sites like Wired News and PC Week because they have this curiosity for the truth and this underlying belief that services [like Slashdot] don't always get it right, and they need an independent verification," said Berinato.
I beg to differ. Other publications work behind closed doors, and hence can never be trusted. With slashdot, the sausage-making process is laid bare for all to see and critique. There are things Rob et al do that piss people off, and by golly people call them on it! A lot!
In my estimation, this article was designed to: a) attract the attention of slashdotters, and
b) remind them how important real journalists are! Like Wired! Good plan, but I don't buy it.
1) according to the kids, when they're in the woods, it's supposed to be raining cats and dogs. The only problem with that is that nothing is wet at all. Not their slickers, their bags, or anything around them
2) Heather's hair is too clean and well-groomed for someone's who spent several days in the woods.
3) The lead character uses her camcorder almost non-stop for 3+ days with no recharger. That's a lot of batteries not to mention tapes.
4) Mike, the sound guy, hates the map so much that he manages to steal it away from the girl while she sleeps, get out of the tent while being hunted by a witch in the dark, without waking anyone, he tosses it in the creek. Manages to get back inside the tent without anyone noticing. Yet, the quietest witch sounds wakes them all up.
5) In the end they hear shouts coming from this house seemingly 30 feet from their tent, as the scene was real-time. If that house was that close they would have seen it in the daytime when they started building their camp.
6) When they first get that motel room in Burkittsville there are two beds with two of the guys in them. Where did the girl sleep?
7) Two or three times during the movie one of the guys is holding the video camera and you hear Heather talking. But when they show her she's pitching the tent or crossing a river and her lips aren't moving at all.
I know this thread has expired, but I need to respond to a coupe points here. As to the agricultural production:
The US has double the arable land of China.
Argentina and Australia, while large, are freaking deserts.
Increased agricultural output has without question contributed greatly to American prosperity. No question about that. But has the US increased its production at all in the last 20-30 years? Not really. Not much.
Reinvesting in your own infrastructure requires large ammounts of startup capital and a small degree of risk. The company's money, and the company's risk. Meddling in foreign affairs to get your hands on foreign labor resources is
a) faster (especially now).
b) less risky (military maneuvers are far more predictable than the market)
c) cheaper to the corporations, as the taxpayers foot the bill in this case.
When the killing dying and lying is over, Nike and United Fruit can just trot into ( eg Nicaragua) under US military protection and set up shop. When local poor underpaid workers and farmers decide they want their country's resources for their own and their childrens, the marines move back in to "protect their interests" and crush the peasant rebellion.
That is all for Econ 101. Please read pages 341-429 for the discussion on Monday.
Biohazard won last year too. While effective, it's kind of a cheap ploy if you ask me. Just avoiding the other robots' heinous attacks and then flipping them over? If everyone did that it'd be a really boring contest.
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The time dimension is non-spatial, and is AFAIK usually excluded from discussions topology, physics and such.
Yes, time is often referred to as the 4th dimension, but it's usually hyperspace, which is indeed "rolled up" into a "small area", as it were.
New indeed. Good stuff though.
Everyone talks as if racism was the only issue of the Nazi platform. Maybe the boys were keen on Hitler's ambitious economic reforms, hm?
I agree. The "Virtual University" has got to be the lamest idea I've heard of since White Castle Burgers. The University is supposed to be a place where people get together, face-to-face like. In Europe and parts of Asia, the biomass of idealistic young adults at the U also functions as a permanent challenge to local governents. Neither can happen if everyone is at home facing a screen.
Just take a long look at the "well rounded" education you get from Microsoft in their MCSE program.
If I have a 6-pack of Pepsi, and I drink two Pepsi's, how many Pepsi's have I enjoyed?
And I believe that freedom means my right to own slaves. I mean, this is the economy we're talkin about! Damn socialists.
In my experience, the choice between IBM and Sun has never come down to power scalability or price. It usually comes down to the UNIX admins flatly refusing to work with something as evil as AIX.
I think any animal born without claws, fangs, or protective hide should be allowed to carry a weapon of some sort.
I propose that pointing out once again the subtle difference between free speech and free beer to the readers of Slashdot is lame filler not unlike hollering ME TOO on AOL.
That's the American Southeast. Meesa think yousa watchin' too much Footloose.
I suppose BYU Hawaii and BYU Jerusalem are exclusively for out-of-staters. Lowest wage rates, spending on pupils, even lower that Alabama and Mississippi.
This is because we have the most children per capita. Also, we don't require things like cops and metal detectors in our schools.
NeTrek was also developed (mostly) in Utah.
You're talking about the state that brought us Novell, Word Perfect, Caldera, the television, the first man-made industrial diamond, and the Cold Fusion hoax. The MS vs. Caldera antitrust case was also filed initially in Utah. Granted, there isn't a HUGE Linux scene (aside from the companies I mentioned), but then again, we don't have all that many people :)
It appears the grammar checkers at zdnet are all broken so forget about punctuation and feel free to write grotesquely run on sentences with no punctuation in wild abandon but you cant really complain bacause hey if we really knew how to write we'd get a real job at a respectable publication and stop trying to poop on the linuxux guys parade.
I forsee a day when people will post info directly to slashdot without mucking about with the high-priced intermediaries. Like: "Hi!, I'm Linus. Let me tell you about what we're thinking about putting into kernel 2.3.x!"
As it is, I'd say maybe 50% of "news" comes from sources other than news publications.
I beg to differ. Other publications work behind closed doors, and hence can never be trusted. With slashdot, the sausage-making process is laid bare for all to see and critique. There are things Rob et al do that piss people off, and by golly people call them on it! A lot!
In my estimation, this article was designed to:
a) attract the attention of slashdotters, and
b) remind them how important real journalists are! Like Wired! Good plan, but I don't buy it.
I junked my MCSE (I actually set fire to it) about 8 months ago. $8000.00 in schooling up in smoke.
Better to be poor and have integrity.
Which is odd, considering how aggressivly Compaq is marketing them...
I have to me-too this. Oracle on NT is a sick joke.
"Only game" or not, me and my 164SX server/router/firewall running 2.2.9 couldn't be happier together.
I'd use it as my workstation if it had any kind of reliable browser...
By using Linux I cheat M$ out of $190.00.
Yes, Robert X Cringely found the Altair 8800 serial #2 in the early '90s and filmed it for his documentary. (serial #1 was lost in the mail)
Way to go, Dell.
1) according to the kids, when they're in the woods, it's supposed to be raining cats and dogs. The only problem with that is that nothing is wet at all. Not their slickers, their bags, or anything around them
2) Heather's hair is too clean and well-groomed for someone's who spent several days in the woods.
3) The lead character uses her camcorder almost non-stop for 3+ days with no recharger. That's a lot of batteries not to mention tapes.
4) Mike, the sound guy, hates the map so much that he manages to steal it away from the girl while she sleeps, get out of the tent while being hunted by a witch in the dark, without waking anyone, he tosses it in the creek. Manages to get back inside the tent without anyone noticing. Yet, the quietest witch sounds wakes them all up.
5) In the end they hear shouts coming from this house seemingly 30 feet from their tent, as the scene was real-time. If that house was that close they would have seen it in the daytime when they started building their camp.
6) When they first get that motel room in Burkittsville there are two beds with two of the guys in them. Where did the girl sleep?
7) Two or three times during the movie one of the guys is holding the video camera and you hear Heather talking. But when they show her she's pitching the tent or crossing a river and her lips aren't moving at all.
The US has double the arable land of China.
Argentina and Australia, while large, are freaking deserts.
Increased agricultural output has without question contributed greatly to American prosperity. No question about that. But has the US increased its production at all in the last 20-30 years? Not really. Not much.
Reinvesting in your own infrastructure requires large ammounts of startup capital and a small degree of risk. The company's money, and the company's risk. Meddling in foreign affairs to get your hands on foreign labor resources is
a) faster (especially now).
b) less risky (military maneuvers are far more predictable than the market)
c) cheaper to the corporations, as the taxpayers foot the bill in this case.
When the killing dying and lying is over, Nike and United Fruit can just trot into ( eg Nicaragua) under US military protection and set up shop. When local poor underpaid workers and farmers decide they want their country's resources for their own and their childrens, the marines move back in to "protect their interests" and crush the peasant rebellion.
That is all for Econ 101. Please read pages 341-429 for the discussion on Monday.
Biohazard won last year too. While effective, it's kind of a cheap ploy if you ask me. Just avoiding the other robots' heinous attacks and then flipping them over? If everyone did that it'd be a really boring contest.