"The Think Progress article is hilarious," David MacLean, the Canadian member of the six-person student team from four different continents, told CNET on Wednesday. "We've had a really good laugh in the last day over this. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen."
MacLean added: "It was a class project done at the Atlas think tank MBA program. We came up with the concept in a few days."
These marshals are required to submit at least one report per month. This is beyond a simple lack of education - they're filing Surveillance Detection Reports on random people because that's the only way the marshals can earn raises and bonuses, not because they're unable to tell the difference between "good" people and "bad" people.
Will Office 12 require Windows Vista?
No. Although there were some initial plans to more tightly couple the new products, they will work independently of one another. There may be some features that "light up" only when a user is running Vista, however.
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That would be even funnier if it was true.
"10 minutes ago" is earlier than "9 minutes ago", in most parts of the universe.
IANAL, but this seems like they are basically making a tentative claim towards the illegitimacy of "licensing" software in general. This appears absolutely _huge_! The Doctrine of First Sale is might be back:)
This isn't really disputing the legitimacy of licensing per se, but rather suggests that "shrinkwrap licenses" aren't really "licenses" in the traditional sense. It seems that they are taking the view that the classic shrinkwrap license, because it is good indefinitely, isn't really a "license" at all, but is instead more of a sales contract.
I'm becoming convinced that Society (tm) will never figure this out, because Society (tm) lacks the necessary clues. And this isn't a new situation, as many others have commented; my story will sound very familiar to a lot of you, I'm sure.
I'm a 43-year-old nerd. It's been 25 years since I left high school. I can still remember dreading school each day; I can still remember which halls I learned to avoid at what times of the day. I wasn't a radical (I missed that by about 10 years), or someone who dressed in non-mainstream clothes, or listed to "unusual" music; there wasn't a whole lot of that going on in my part of Kansas in the mid-1970's. If we'd had computers, I'm sure I'd have been into them then, but the Apple II wasn't even out then, and mainframes were a little hard to come by....
So, I wasn't in any of the classic groups that everyone seems to think of when the word "alienation" comes up. My crimes were being smart, and being fat. I had one really good friend in high school, and about five sort-of good friends; everyone else was either indifferent, or picked on me and my friends because we were smart, or ridiculed me for being fat. "Different" comes in lots of boxes, and these were mine.
High school is an incredibly scary time of your life. It's a time when you should be able to explore ideas, and your own changing thought processes, and develop your social and intellectual skills; why are so many exceptional kids forced to learn survival skills instead? I got lucky - I found friends and teachers who really cared, and I had support at home, and I got through. Why is it so hard to get these ideas across to the people who can actually make a difference?
Today, I send my kids to a private school. My daughter (age 16) spent five years in the public schools, from second through sixth grade; two of them were actually of value. Her first week in second grade was a real eye-opener for her; one day, she came home and asked "What's a 'white cracker'?" - one of her 7-year-old classmates had walked up to her and called her that, out of the blue. We were lucky enough to get her into an "advanced students" program in fourth grade, but it disintegrated after sixth grade; she and her classmates were schedule to be moved to the advanced 7th grade program at one of the rowdier middle schools, but we were assured by the school district that the kids would be OK because the advanced students were segregated to a separate floor of the building.... Not wanting her (or my son, now age 12) to have the same exciting learning experiences I had ("here's how you can look around a corner before walking down the hall!"), we moved her to a private school.
I know I'm incredibly lucky; thanks to having the chance to survive high school, I was able to get a good college education, and now have a job which almost pays me enough to afford the private-school tuition I'm paying out for my kids. It saddens me to think how many kids get so abused and turned off by the system that they don't get the same chance.
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Think Progess either got suckered, or is trying to pull a fast one.
The PPT document was created by six students as a class project in Florida last month. From the CNET article:
Of course, the last time we went over this, it was the OLPC project that was touted.
These marshals are required to submit at least one report per month. This is beyond a simple lack of education - they're filing Surveillance Detection Reports on random people because that's the only way the marshals can earn raises and bonuses, not because they're unable to tell the difference between "good" people and "bad" people.
Dang - you figured it out. Now we have to kill you.
- There Is No Cabal
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That would be even funnier if it was true. "10 minutes ago" is earlier than "9 minutes ago", in most parts of the universe.
I always figured that the best answer to that opening question was "I give up - who are you?".
IANAL, but this seems like they are basically making a tentative claim towards the illegitimacy of "licensing" software in general. This appears absolutely _huge_! The Doctrine of First Sale is might be back :)
This isn't really disputing the legitimacy of licensing per se, but rather suggests that "shrinkwrap licenses" aren't really "licenses" in the traditional sense. It seems that they are taking the view that the classic shrinkwrap license, because it is good indefinitely, isn't really a "license" at all, but is instead more of a sales contract.
I'm a 43-year-old nerd. It's been 25 years since I left high school. I can still remember dreading school each day; I can still remember which halls I learned to avoid at what times of the day. I wasn't a radical (I missed that by about 10 years), or someone who dressed in non-mainstream clothes, or listed to "unusual" music; there wasn't a whole lot of that going on in my part of Kansas in the mid-1970's. If we'd had computers, I'm sure I'd have been into them then, but the Apple II wasn't even out then, and mainframes were a little hard to come by....
So, I wasn't in any of the classic groups that everyone seems to think of when the word "alienation" comes up. My crimes were being smart, and being fat. I had one really good friend in high school, and about five sort-of good friends; everyone else was either indifferent, or picked on me and my friends because we were smart, or ridiculed me for being fat. "Different" comes in lots of boxes, and these were mine.
High school is an incredibly scary time of your life. It's a time when you should be able to explore ideas, and your own changing thought processes, and develop your social and intellectual skills; why are so many exceptional kids forced to learn survival skills instead? I got lucky - I found friends and teachers who really cared, and I had support at home, and I got through. Why is it so hard to get these ideas across to the people who can actually make a difference?
Today, I send my kids to a private school. My daughter (age 16) spent five years in the public schools, from second through sixth grade; two of them were actually of value. Her first week in second grade was a real eye-opener for her; one day, she came home and asked "What's a 'white cracker'?" - one of her 7-year-old classmates had walked up to her and called her that, out of the blue. We were lucky enough to get her into an "advanced students" program in fourth grade, but it disintegrated after sixth grade; she and her classmates were schedule to be moved to the advanced 7th grade program at one of the rowdier middle schools, but we were assured by the school district that the kids would be OK because the advanced students were segregated to a separate floor of the building.... Not wanting her (or my son, now age 12) to have the same exciting learning experiences I had ("here's how you can look around a corner before walking down the hall!"), we moved her to a private school.
I know I'm incredibly lucky; thanks to having the chance to survive high school, I was able to get a good college education, and now have a job which almost pays me enough to afford the private-school tuition I'm paying out for my kids. It saddens me to think how many kids get so abused and turned off by the system that they don't get the same chance.