I've not used any version of Photoshop for quite a while. I'm hearing that it has many high end features that the Gimp doesn't have that might be useful to professionals. Other than that I think the difference is one of which interface you're accustomed to. I suspect that most people wouldn't have enough use for Photoshop's extra functionality to want to pay the difference in price. Unless you're really in need of those features, (you're a professional) you should probably just take time to get used to the Gimp. It may have more capabilities than you realize with all of the plugins that are available. It is constantly improving. SRR
This law is just political pandering. Forcing the ISP's to provide this list, is just so that the politicians pushing it can distinguish themselves as being anti-pornography. I think most ISP's would voluntarily provide the list anyway. Parents would probably favor those and most all other ISP's would follow. If they couldn't do so, then they could just explain to the customer "caveat emptor".
If you were on the state legislature in Utah, would you dare vote against this bill? That would be like publicly announcing that you were in favor of pornography.
"I don't think you can make a case against students learning to use computers now, as opposed to waiting until they are over 40 and trying to find the Any Key."
I agree with that but the implication is that if you don't become computer literate while young that it will be too difficult to catch up later.
I had almost no exposure to computing until I was about 32. In the ten years since then, I've installed MSWindows, Slackware, RedHat, Suse, and Linux from Scratch systems on my own and other people's computers. I frequently am called upon to troubleshoot problems with both Linux and Windows software, even though I don't have a position with I.T. at my company. I've created spreadsheets for my employer. I wrote my own calendar and alarm program in Tcl/Tk. I always compile my own kernels and most of the other software that I use. I frequently find people who were educated in computers at a young age approach me when they can't figure out how to do something.
Sorry to sound like I'm tooting my own horn, I just wanted people to know that becoming computer literate is still possible, even if you don't achieve it while a teenager.
In any work environment, whether private sector or public, there is slack time. What would be the macro-economic impact of eliminating all that slack time from the workplace? Mass unemployment? Cheaper goods and services? A shorter workweek? What would be the impact on the distribution of wealth?. What would be the impact on the quality of life, considering that most of us have to go to work most of the days of our lives?
You agreed to pay me such and such an amount to do such and such each week. Now you find out that I can do it in ten hours, when you thought that it would take me 40, so you want to punish me by reducing me to 10 hours pay? You just eliminated any incentive I had to be efficient.
Maybe GWB should lecture the Communist China on the value of freedom of speech and religion. Oh wait!, if he does that, they might not finance our collossal deficit. Better let them be as brutal as they want to their own, as long as they keep loaning the U.S. money.
If I had my way the U.S. would only recognize ONE China. The one whose government is in Taipei.
Perhaps Europe or India have something like a Peace Corps that could come here and teach it to us.
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"Indoor electric lighting is the largest consumer of electricity in commercial buildings."
Where is this true? I worked as a stationary engineer in commercial buildings for years. HVAC was, I thought, always the biggest consumption of power. Of course, I'm in Las Vegas where in the summer the power bills are 4 times in the summer what they are in the fall.
Not sure about that. By accusing them of hacking into the system to check their status, aren't the Harvard officials committing slander in accusing them of an illegal activity? I'll bet the settlement out of court would include admission to the school. Harvard will want to protect its own reputation for being fair and the media attention to the lawsuit could create the appearance that they were not. So even if it loses on legal grounds, I'm betting Harvard would reverse it's position.
Hmm, maybe I should be AL. I wonder if I could get into Harvard Law School.:-)
If I were AL, how can I get a list of these 119 students. I think they have a case against Harvard. Can Harvard prove that each accessed file was accessed by the student whose record appeared in it. Let's see how much of a retainer from each of 119 future wealthy executives....?
To regular Slashdot readers the Bill Gates as a Borg logo is just sort of toungue in cheek exageration. But to newcomers this coupled with the "enemies of Linux" articles makes Slashdot sound sort of like a paranoid cult.
Beware! The enemies of Linux are everywhere. They're infecting the fabric of the open source universe and attempting to subvert Open hearts and minds with their evil doctrine. They're hiding behind the trees and in spaces in the walls, and I think I've spotted them coming through my Windows chanting subliminal proprietary propaganda. Now, what did I do with my aluminum foil hat?
At my own company my employees would be free to say whatever they want (as long as it's not slander) without fear of economic retaliation. It would be better to have employees who spoke well of the company because they were sincere than because they were afraid to speak otherwise. Consider it a form of advertizing for higher quality of future workers. Moreover if I found out my competitors were censoring their employees, I wouldn't hesitate to use that.
Let me give our British cousins some American advice. Don't worry you don't have to pay the tax on these. Here's what you do. Get dressed up as Indians (or native Americans if you prefer) and sneek into the harbor and get on the ships where these machines are being shipped into Great Britain. Then dump them all overboard into the harbor.
We had something like this with the British government a few hundred years ago. Since the rebellion we haven't had to pay one penny in taxes (to the British government).
Imagine taking this approach 100 years ago. Oceanliners would push for legislation outlawing transoceanic aircraft. Horse trainers would push to abolish internal combustion engines. Theatrical companies would go after movie theaters. And the parcel services would try to eliminate telegraphs.
I don't mean "fairness" as in "a level playing field between you and me." I mean it would be unfair to her (and to me) not to know me as I am today prior to receiving knowledge that (although true) creates a bad first impression.
LOL. Well that's my point. I shouldn't have to talk about that until you know me better. I'm 41 years old. When you're my age do you think your character should be judged by what you did when you were 19? I think you'd react to it differently if I told you what I did up front than you would if you knew me as I am now.
How many of you are in a successful relationship that would have never gotten off the ground if you had been required to reveal all of your past upon meeting your mate? When we first meet someone, most of us would like to keep some of our skeletons in the closet, at least until the other has grown to know us as we are now. It would be unfair if a potential new mate's opinion of me were based upon horrible mistakes that I made early in my life.
"Additionally, teaching methods are very outdated. There hasn't been significant change and improvement in teaching methods for 50 years. "
I think teaching methods 50 years ago were more successful. The need to improve upon something that was working well enough, may have contributed to the problem. Memorization is an important part of learning. How do I teach Latin or French to students who don't want to memorize the vocabulary or rules of grammar? Or history to those who think that memorizing certain events and dates is unimportant? Knowing the times and places of these events provides a mental framework within which other historical events can be interpretted.
I think a return to disciplined education, as was practiced in 1955 by most American schools, is a necessity. But when I say "disciplined" I don't mean conformity to rules that are unrelated to learning, e.g. school uniforms, regulation haircuts. I mean eliminating grade inflation, requiring homework sufficient to learn the subject matter, and holding students responsible for the knowledge that we expect them to acquire.
I think this article you mention was written by the same Gary North who, back in 1999, went on the Art Bell show and told everyone that Y2K would bring chaos and anarchy.
"Also, our laws prohibit the public administration to enter markets where already enough private companies compete against each other."
I'm curious. Even if it is illegal for the public administration to do this, would it be illegal for a non-governmental group to do it? Say some billionaire philanthropist decides that it's in the best interest of the community to have free WiFi. Would the telco's and private companies have any legal case against him for providing a service for free that they were trying to sell?
Also, the city could make the case that it is necessary to do this to provide equal access to education. The internet is now the primary source of information for any research.
I've been saying this for years. My parents shook their heads bewildered because we listened to the Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, AC/DC. Now I hear my contemporaries, after having experienced this in their own adolescence, talking about how much they hate the music their kids listen to. And what's amazing is they have absolutely no sense of irony about it. They are just as closed minded about what music should sound like as their parents were. I'd mod you up as insightful if I had mod points.
The 40 hour workweek began in T. Roosevelt's time. Lot's of labor-saving devices and methods have been introduced since then. Since many of us have demonstrated in this article that we now have lots of slack time (or is it Slashdot time?) then isn't reasonable that the work week should be shortened to 32 hours. I'm sure that I'd get just as much work done in 32 that I now do in 40.
This would create new jobs in a couple of ways. One would be that new activities would be created to fill the increased leisure time.
I just installed Slack 10. I discovered that if I rename my old XF86Config to xorg.conf, it works. It was just a lucky guess on my part that this would function.
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I've not used any version of Photoshop for quite a while. I'm hearing that it has many high end features that the Gimp doesn't have that might be useful to professionals. Other than that I think the difference is one of which interface you're accustomed to. I suspect that most people wouldn't have enough use for Photoshop's extra functionality to want to pay the difference in price. Unless you're really in need of those features, (you're a professional) you should probably just take time to get used to the Gimp. It may have more capabilities than you realize with all of the plugins that are available.
It is constantly improving.
SRR
This law is just political pandering. Forcing the ISP's to provide this list, is just so that the politicians pushing it can distinguish themselves as being anti-pornography. I think most ISP's would voluntarily provide the list anyway. Parents would probably favor those and most all other ISP's would follow. If they couldn't do so, then they could just explain to the customer "caveat emptor".
If you were on the state legislature in Utah, would you dare vote against this bill? That would be like publicly announcing that you were in favor of pornography.
"I don't think you can make a case against students learning to use computers now, as opposed to waiting until they are over 40 and trying to find the Any Key."
I agree with that but the implication is that if you don't become computer literate while young that it will be too difficult to catch up later.
I had almost no exposure to computing until I was about 32. In the ten years since then, I've installed MSWindows, Slackware, RedHat, Suse, and Linux from Scratch systems on my own and other people's computers.
I frequently am called upon to troubleshoot problems with both Linux and Windows software, even though I don't have a position with I.T. at my company. I've created spreadsheets for my employer. I wrote my own calendar and alarm program in Tcl/Tk. I always compile my own kernels and most of the other software that I use. I frequently find people who were educated in computers at a young age approach me when they can't figure out how to do something.
Sorry to sound like I'm tooting my own horn, I just wanted people to know that becoming computer literate is still possible, even if you don't achieve it while a teenager.
In any work environment, whether private sector or public, there is slack time. What would be the macro-economic impact of eliminating all that slack time from the workplace? Mass unemployment? Cheaper goods and services? A shorter workweek?
What would be the impact on the distribution of wealth?. What would be the impact on the quality of life, considering that most of us have to go to work most of the days of our lives?
You agreed to pay me such and such an amount to do such and such each week. Now you find out that I can do it in ten hours, when you thought that it would take me 40, so you want to punish me by reducing me to 10 hours pay? You just eliminated any incentive I had to be efficient.
I've been out of high school for more than 20 years.
Maybe GWB should lecture the Communist China on the value of freedom of speech and religion. Oh wait!, if he does that, they might not finance our collossal deficit. Better let them be as brutal as they want to their own, as long as they keep loaning the U.S. money.
If I had my way the U.S. would only recognize ONE China. The one whose government is in Taipei.
Perhaps Europe or India have something like a Peace Corps that could come here and teach it to us.
"Indoor electric lighting is the largest consumer of electricity in commercial buildings."
Where is this true? I worked as a stationary engineer in commercial buildings for years. HVAC was, I thought, always the biggest consumption of power. Of course, I'm in Las Vegas where in the summer the power bills are 4 times in the summer what they are in the fall.
Not sure about that. By accusing them of hacking into the system to check their status, aren't the Harvard officials committing slander in accusing them of an illegal activity? I'll bet the settlement out of court would include admission to the school. Harvard will want to protect its own reputation for being fair and the media attention to the lawsuit could create the appearance that they were not. :-)
So even if it loses on legal grounds, I'm betting Harvard would reverse it's position.
Hmm, maybe I should be AL. I wonder if I could get into Harvard Law School.
If I were AL, how can I get a list of these 119 students. I think they have a case against Harvard. Can Harvard prove that each accessed file was accessed by the student whose record appeared in it. Let's see how much of a retainer from each of 119 future wealthy executives....?
To regular Slashdot readers the Bill Gates as a Borg logo is just sort of toungue in cheek exageration. But to newcomers this coupled with the "enemies of Linux" articles makes Slashdot sound sort of like a paranoid cult.
Beware! The enemies of Linux are everywhere. They're infecting the fabric of the open source universe and attempting to subvert Open hearts and minds with their evil doctrine. They're hiding behind the trees and in spaces in the walls, and I think I've spotted them coming through my Windows chanting subliminal proprietary propaganda.
Now, what did I do with my aluminum foil hat?
At my own company my employees would be free to say whatever they want (as long as it's not slander) without fear of economic retaliation. It would be better to have employees who spoke well of the company because they were sincere than because they were afraid to speak otherwise.
Consider it a form of advertizing for higher quality of future workers. Moreover if I found out my competitors were censoring their employees, I wouldn't hesitate to use that.
Let me give our British cousins some American advice. Don't worry you don't have to pay the tax on these. Here's what you do. Get dressed up as Indians (or native Americans if you prefer) and sneek into the harbor and get on the ships where these machines are being shipped into Great Britain. Then dump them all overboard into the harbor.
We had something like this with the British government a few hundred years ago. Since the rebellion we haven't had to pay one penny in taxes (to the British government).
Imagine taking this approach 100 years ago. Oceanliners would push for legislation outlawing transoceanic aircraft. Horse trainers would push to abolish internal combustion engines. Theatrical companies would go after movie theaters. And the parcel services would try to eliminate telegraphs.
I don't mean "fairness" as in "a level playing field between you and me." I mean it would be unfair to her (and to me) not to know me as I am today prior to receiving knowledge that (although true) creates a bad first impression.
LOL. Well that's my point. I shouldn't have to talk about that until you know me better. I'm 41 years old. When you're my age do you think your character should be judged by what you did when you were 19?
I think you'd react to it differently if I told you what I did up front than you would if you knew me as I am now.
How many of you are in a successful relationship that would have never gotten off the ground if you had been required to reveal all of your past upon meeting your mate? When we first meet someone, most of us would like to keep some of our skeletons in the closet, at least until the other has grown to know us as we are now. It would be unfair if a potential new mate's opinion of me were based upon horrible mistakes that I made early in my life.
Warning we haven't conducted a background check on Herb Vest of True.com to ascertain whether or not he is an ass-hole.
"Additionally, teaching methods are very outdated. There hasn't been significant change and improvement in teaching methods for 50 years. "
I think teaching methods 50 years ago were more successful. The need to improve upon something that was working well enough, may have contributed to the problem. Memorization is an important part of learning. How do I teach Latin or French to students who don't want to memorize the vocabulary or rules of grammar? Or history to those who think that memorizing certain events and dates is unimportant? Knowing the times and places of these events provides a mental framework within which other historical events can be interpretted.
I think a return to disciplined education, as was practiced in 1955 by most American schools, is a necessity. But when I say "disciplined" I don't mean conformity to rules that are unrelated to learning, e.g. school uniforms, regulation haircuts. I mean eliminating grade inflation, requiring homework sufficient to learn the subject matter, and holding students responsible for the knowledge that we expect them to acquire.
I think this article you mention was written by the same Gary North who, back in 1999, went on the Art Bell show and told everyone that Y2K would bring chaos and anarchy.
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"Also, our laws prohibit the public administration to enter markets where already enough private companies compete against each other."
I'm curious. Even if it is illegal for the public administration to do this, would it be illegal for a non-governmental group to do it? Say some billionaire philanthropist decides that it's in the best interest of the community to have free WiFi. Would the telco's and private companies have any legal case against him for providing a service for free that they were trying to sell?
Also, the city could make the case that it is necessary to do this to provide equal access to education. The internet is now the primary source of information for any research.
I've been saying this for years. My parents shook their heads bewildered because we listened to the Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, AC/DC. Now I hear my contemporaries, after having experienced this in their own adolescence, talking about how much they hate the music their kids listen to. And what's amazing is they have absolutely no sense of irony about it. They are just as closed minded about what music should sound like as their parents were. I'd mod you up as insightful if I had mod points.
The 40 hour workweek began in T. Roosevelt's time. Lot's of labor-saving devices and methods have been introduced since then. Since many of us have demonstrated in this article that we now have lots of slack time (or is it Slashdot time?) then isn't reasonable that the work week should be shortened to 32 hours. I'm sure that I'd get just as much work done in 32 that I now do in 40.
This would create new jobs in a couple of ways. One would be that new activities would be created to fill the increased leisure time.
I just installed Slack 10. I discovered that if I rename my old XF86Config to xorg.conf, it works. It was just a lucky guess on my part that this would function.