Which is another way of saying that you don't really place much value on knowledge and learning.
Sorry, you're reading that in where it doesn't exist in my previous comment.
I'm a grad student in US History with dual undergrad degrees (with honors) in Black Studies and Philosophy. I certainly don't need to be lectured about the benefits of knowledge or learning.
That said, in my experience as a teaching assistant both at my current UC school (Black Studies department) and at the community college I worked at before coming to grad school (Poli Sci department), I found that students who weren't on a tight budget tended to have far greater interest and ability to take "broadening" courses than their student loan / work-study counterparts. The latter group mainly focused on getting through school so they could graduate, find a decent job, and start paying off their debts.
The point is, people who focus on getting their degree so that they can get to work ASAP are not necessarily disintrested in learning. Their financial situation may be such that they have no other economically responsible alternatives.
Whatever happened to learning for learning's sake?
It went out the window when the bill for tuition arrived.
Learning for learning's sake is great, if you've got a full ride. Learning for learning's sake on your own dime (and debt) is another story altogether.
The amount of money was pretty small. Thats the point of privitization, the price goes down due to neccessity
Actually, it seems far more reasonable that the price went down because 40 years ago, thanks to massive government subsidization, scientist sorted all this out and developed practical examples. Lessons learned from those programs are now "free" knowledge for the private sector, so they don't have to start from square one.
That's the point of government subsidized programs.
"Ships will never be completely invisible. A lot of modern submarines are extremely hard to detect, but that is always going to be difficult for a surface ship to match." Commodore Stephen Saunders of Jane's Fighting Ships
It's interesting to note that on the second link, the only two full-bodied, full-exposure nudes are of a woman of Asian descent and a man of African descent. And the man of African descent has been castrated.
Perhaps it would be good to set up netcafes in "hotspots" with free fps gaming like counterstrike, so that the locals can get their kicks instead of making roadside bombs.
Or perhaps we should just stop invading and occupying their countries, supporting dictatorial regimes which brutalize them and their families, and levelling sanctions against their nations for failing to comply with our demands of unlimited and unencumbered access to their markets and resources.
Ah hell, what am I saying. You're right; I'm sure they'd rather have Counterstrike!
The RCGroups Aerial Photography Forum has plenty of information about doing still photography and wireless video from Radio Control aircraft, including helicopters, powered planes, and gliders. There's plenty of sample in-flight photographs as well. The Aiptek pen cams seem to be favored and are easily modified to be actuated by a spare channel via direct plugin to the model's receiver. Very cool stuff, and you can fly where you want as opposed to being restricted by a string.
To me, the fact that the iPod ships with a non-replaceable battery is pretty inglorious for Apple, to say the least. Many consumer electronic items have swappable batteries that do not require a trip to the shop (wrist watches, mobiles phones, digital cameras, etc., etc., etc.), and I think the iPod should as well. Sell the swappable batteries for $99 each, but don't make a product that has to be shipped in for a freaking battery replacement. Modularity is a good thing, especially as regards your energy source--and especially if your battery only ends up lasting 18 months, which is a complete joke in my opinion (though it's hard to know how much they used the thing--perhaps it's normal wear n' tear?). That said, our consumerist culture produces enough disposable garbage; we should be trying to reduce/reuse/recycle just a bit, no?
One of my friends has been trying to introduce them to each other.
"I don't think I can help you, Mr. D---, but I think you might be interested in meeting Mrs. L---, recently a widow, who has a business proposition similar to yours..."
Now, their business practices are a different story, but I wouldn't diss the product too much. Nobody made an OS yet that runs on the same range of hardware and has the same capabilities.
I would suggest that it is Microsoft's business practices that have produced an OS whose market dominance, resulting from said business practices, has dictated much of what is produced in terms of hardware (and associated drivers) and capabilites.
In other words, there's nothing superior about the OS per se, rather Windows's dominance comes directly from the practices of an incredibly monopolistic, predatory and lawbreaking company who tries (and generally succeeds) at ramming their product down everyone's throats.
FWIW, I know you're making a joke, and appreciate that at least some people are capable of recognizing the iconography Apple has appropriated for the marketing of OS X v10.3.
That said: Malcolm X had nothing to do directly with the Panthers. Malcolm was assassinated in February of '65 and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was formed in Oakland in '66, in response to police violence and repression against blacks in the community. The Panthers drew a large amount of inspiration from Malcolm's example, as did many other black pride / black power organizations who were looking to move beyond the constitutionalist/accomodationist "turn the other cheek" approach of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (who was, as we all known, assassinated himself in '68).
Just for the sake of argument and not meaning my response as a flame of your joke, I strongly suspect Malcolm X couldn't give a damn about how well Apple's software product is doing. I would hazard that he might view Apple's decision to market their "Panther" product via the use of an all-black box and the "X" symbol as an example of whites exploiting African American cultural symbols for their own ends (and profits). Wouldn't be the first time, obviously.
Bear in mind that this is Voice Recognition for a 400 mhz PocketPC handheld device and not some hulking great PowerMac with oddles of RAM and at least a Gigahertz processor.
FWIW the original poster was referencing his Powerbook and not some hulking PowerMac and etc. Though all the PBs do seem to have at least 1Ghz processors these days...
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You obviously don't have a mac.
You obviously don't have a PC.
Which is another way of saying that you don't really place much value on knowledge and learning.
Sorry, you're reading that in where it doesn't exist in my previous comment.
I'm a grad student in US History with dual undergrad degrees (with honors) in Black Studies and Philosophy. I certainly don't need to be lectured about the benefits of knowledge or learning.
That said, in my experience as a teaching assistant both at my current UC school (Black Studies department) and at the community college I worked at before coming to grad school (Poli Sci department), I found that students who weren't on a tight budget tended to have far greater interest and ability to take "broadening" courses than their student loan / work-study counterparts. The latter group mainly focused on getting through school so they could graduate, find a decent job, and start paying off their debts.
The point is, people who focus on getting their degree so that they can get to work ASAP are not necessarily disintrested in learning. Their financial situation may be such that they have no other economically responsible alternatives.
Computer science, for instance, is the science of computation.
I'll be damned, I guess you're right!
Whatever happened to learning for learning's sake?
It went out the window when the bill for tuition arrived.
Learning for learning's sake is great, if you've got a full ride. Learning for learning's sake on your own dime (and debt) is another story altogether.
The amount of money was pretty small. Thats the point of privitization, the price goes down due to neccessity
Actually, it seems far more reasonable that the price went down because 40 years ago, thanks to massive government subsidization, scientist sorted all this out and developed practical examples. Lessons learned from those programs are now "free" knowledge for the private sector, so they don't have to start from square one.
That's the point of government subsidized programs.
Mac OS X is 90% of the reason I have PPC.
Microsoft Windows is 100% of the reason I have PPC.
Can't we just assume that as a given?
I've not read something that funny on /. in a long, long time. May I come with you to Alderaan to learn the ways of the Force?
Trey Parker claiming to be a Libertarian != Trey Parker being funny, and vice versa.
Parker has proven time and time again that he can make simple points very well.
Is that supposed to be an example of "damning with faint praise," or is that actually meant as a compliment?
Mod parent UP! LOL
OK, but wouldn't a ground launch be more "V-2 Buzzbomb like" than "SSO like"?
The point being that an essential component of the SSO theory is having a mothership so as to avoid having to boost all the way from a gantry pad.
Getting rid of the mothership launch would make any such rocket more like something else than like the SSO/White Knight, IMHO.
Uh, SpaceShipOne isn't launched at vertically nor at a 45* angle. It's launched from beneath a larger "mothership" called White Knight.
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/info.htm
So, to summarize, you're saying "RTFA"?
A quote from the article:
;)
"Ships will never be completely invisible. A lot of modern submarines are extremely hard to detect, but that is always going to be difficult for a surface ship to match." Commodore Stephen Saunders of Jane's Fighting Ships
Well, I guess that guy never heard of The Philadelphia Experiment
Anyways, as far as a surface ship matching the "undetectability" of a submarine: once they sink they get pretty hard to find, eh?
It's interesting to note that on the second link, the only two full-bodied, full-exposure nudes are of a woman of Asian descent and a man of African descent. And the man of African descent has been castrated.
Perhaps it would be good to set up netcafes in "hotspots" with free fps gaming like counterstrike, so that the locals can get their kicks instead of making roadside bombs.
Or perhaps we should just stop invading and occupying their countries, supporting dictatorial regimes which brutalize them and their families, and levelling sanctions against their nations for failing to comply with our demands of unlimited and unencumbered access to their markets and resources.
Ah hell, what am I saying. You're right; I'm sure they'd rather have Counterstrike!
So if Linux is, according to Stallman, more properly "GNU/Linux", then what you're saying is that you're arguing for "Aristotle/Turing"?
The RCGroups Aerial Photography Forum has plenty of information about doing still photography and wireless video from Radio Control aircraft, including helicopters, powered planes, and gliders. There's plenty of sample in-flight photographs as well. The Aiptek pen cams seem to be favored and are easily modified to be actuated by a spare channel via direct plugin to the model's receiver. Very cool stuff, and you can fly where you want as opposed to being restricted by a string.
It's a UAV. Nobody flies inside of it. Presumably, before they make a human carrying model they'll get the bugs worked out. Presumably.
Then tell me they did not produced a one sided piece of biased fluff that they purposely have not corrected.
Well, FWIW: A Message From the Neistat Brothers
To me, the fact that the iPod ships with a non-replaceable battery is pretty inglorious for Apple, to say the least. Many consumer electronic items have swappable batteries that do not require a trip to the shop (wrist watches, mobiles phones, digital cameras, etc., etc., etc.), and I think the iPod should as well. Sell the swappable batteries for $99 each, but don't make a product that has to be shipped in for a freaking battery replacement. Modularity is a good thing, especially as regards your energy source--and especially if your battery only ends up lasting 18 months, which is a complete joke in my opinion (though it's hard to know how much they used the thing--perhaps it's normal wear n' tear?). That said, our consumerist culture produces enough disposable garbage; we should be trying to reduce/reuse/recycle just a bit, no?
One of my friends has been trying to introduce them to each other.
"I don't think I can help you, Mr. D---, but I think you might be interested in meeting Mrs. L---, recently a widow, who has a business proposition similar to yours..."
So what's the website going to be called?
e419Harmony.com?
Now, their business practices are a different story, but I wouldn't diss the product too much. Nobody made an OS yet that runs on the same range of hardware and has the same capabilities.
:)
I would suggest that it is Microsoft's business practices that have produced an OS whose market dominance, resulting from said business practices, has dictated much of what is produced in terms of hardware (and associated drivers) and capabilites.
In other words, there's nothing superior about the OS per se, rather Windows's dominance comes directly from the practices of an incredibly monopolistic, predatory and lawbreaking company who tries (and generally succeeds) at ramming their product down everyone's throats.
But that's just my opinion!
FWIW, I know you're making a joke, and appreciate that at least some people are capable of recognizing the iconography Apple has appropriated for the marketing of OS X v10.3.
That said: Malcolm X had nothing to do directly with the Panthers. Malcolm was assassinated in February of '65 and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was formed in Oakland in '66, in response to police violence and repression against blacks in the community. The Panthers drew a large amount of inspiration from Malcolm's example, as did many other black pride / black power organizations who were looking to move beyond the constitutionalist/accomodationist "turn the other cheek" approach of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (who was, as we all known, assassinated himself in '68).
Just for the sake of argument and not meaning my response as a flame of your joke, I strongly suspect Malcolm X couldn't give a damn about how well Apple's software product is doing. I would hazard that he might view Apple's decision to market their "Panther" product via the use of an all-black box and the "X" symbol as an example of whites exploiting African American cultural symbols for their own ends (and profits). Wouldn't be the first time, obviously.
But that's just me talking.
Bear in mind that this is Voice Recognition for a 400 mhz PocketPC handheld device and not some hulking great PowerMac with oddles of RAM and at least a Gigahertz processor.
FWIW the original poster was referencing his Powerbook and not some hulking PowerMac and etc. Though all the PBs do seem to have at least 1Ghz processors these days...