Well, what did you and everyone else before you do before they had cell phones?
They died of exposure or loneliness or worse. Same argument about not wearing seat belts. The ones who got killed aren't around to talk about how "we drove around with 5 kids in the back just bouncing around, and nothing happened to us!"
I suppose that the next question (if this is a good briefing of the document) is that is enough to solve the main problems of DMCA and stop the abuses [eff.org] of it.
To stop all the abuses coming out of D.C., think "1776". So, to answer your question: no.
Not that I'm keen on the idea, but if you look on the other side of the fence... The computers and network are for educational purposes, not personal entertainment.
The computers and network may be for education, but the rest of the uni (we're talking USA) is for personal entertainment.
Perhaps the kids will figure out how to make it look like they're really other users in order to get their bandwidth. Ethically perhaps not great, but when the going gets tough...
At Georgia Tech, there is a mythical student named "George P. Burdell". He's been around forever. He's even got degrees. One quarter he was signed up for every class offered. I am sure his bandwidth would be unlimited. Does Cornell have any such demigods there?
I wish this was happening for a better reason, but our budget mess has to be a driving force.
The State of Oregon is really hurting money wise.
State govt's have traditionally been much more fiscally responsible than the Federal Gov't, even when dominated by Democrats (reputation: free spenders for the state)--but only under pressure. And the pressure is on, so watch the Democrat-dominated Washington State government look to cut spending all over the place. The Federal Gov't, when under pressure, they just add a few trillion dollars to the deficit and spend billions for war.
So, now again, we are being parented by the government. We are not simply smart enough to decide that helmets are good thing individually -- we must have intelligencia decide it for us.
Is the state driving the development of un-self-governability, or is the growing un-self-governability of people around me driving the growth of the state? Either way, we're in a fix.
Didn't Gates hometown end up doing this? I remember reading somewhere about Windows not being up to the task of town management while Gates house was being built. Haven't found the article yet.
That would be the city of Medina. His property _doubled_ the amount of property paperwork for the small city (ie, he cost them $$$). They set up a linux box to run their stuff. They turned the monitor on one of the boxes to the window so passersby could see it was not running Windows.
My school still uses SSN's as student id's. I've found that as a student employee I run into thousands of id's a day. I know it's the same way for a lot of student employees on campus. When will schools learn the benefits of a autogenerated key?
I worked as a vendor for a large company, so I had a badge for that large company. Somehow, my SSN got on the back of that badge. The internal newsgroup posters suggested blacking it out with marker and other ways of obfuscating it. So I did. When I had to get the badge updated, the lady looked at me sternly and said, "don't do that again!"
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Whether or not you personally can dig their thing, the fact is that the Beatles directly influenced and informed 90% of the musicians growing up in that generation. And their influences and homages can of course be felt in a vast number of 'modern' artists. You don't like the Beatles? Fine. Understand that they were essentially the most popular artists of their generation in the English speaking world.
Speaking about digging the Beatles, their first US tour was basically unhearable due to the mobs of screaming teenage girls. So in one sense, they're as bad as Britney.
My music tastes run from Judas Priest, to Devo, to Mozart's Requiem, to Bach, to Sade, to Blue Man Group, to a capella, to a number of indie groups that do everything from Fusion to Russian Jazz. About the only thing I don't like is Country, but there are still a few songs there that I like a lot. So I'm just very dubious that the process of using this would end up netting me any time savings.
Method for you: Just walk into any record store and buy a random CD, you might like it.
Something like a switch to Linux would have been a total disaster, partially because Linux was more immature back then, but mainly because it would have been a very different way of doing things.
What does this say for all those GUI usability gurus? Does it really matter? Once people get used to a certain way of working, they are stuck there, and don't want to change.
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They died of exposure or loneliness or worse. Same argument about not wearing seat belts. The ones who got killed aren't around to talk about how "we drove around with 5 kids in the back just bouncing around, and nothing happened to us!"
To stop all the abuses coming out of D.C., think "1776". So, to answer your question: no.
Holy cow, that circus next door, it's not free?!
If we /. Cornell's web site(s), who pays for _that_?
The computers and network may be for education, but the rest of the uni (we're talking USA) is for personal entertainment.
At Georgia Tech, there is a mythical student named "George P. Burdell". He's been around forever. He's even got degrees. One quarter he was signed up for every class offered. I am sure his bandwidth would be unlimited. Does Cornell have any such demigods there?
What kind of warped world are _you_ living in?
State govt's have traditionally been much more fiscally responsible than the Federal Gov't, even when dominated by Democrats (reputation: free spenders for the state)--but only under pressure. And the pressure is on, so watch the Democrat-dominated Washington State government look to cut spending all over the place. The Federal Gov't, when under pressure, they just add a few trillion dollars to the deficit and spend billions for war.
Gotta "defend" the right to innovate!
Did you miss the series on ABC news documenting the recent plague of nail-gun killings? It's horrible!
Is the state driving the development of un-self-governability, or is the growing un-self-governability of people around me driving the growth of the state? Either way, we're in a fix.
That would be the city of Medina. His property _doubled_ the amount of property paperwork for the small city (ie, he cost them $$$). They set up a linux box to run their stuff. They turned the monitor on one of the boxes to the window so passersby could see it was not running Windows.
This is funny, since the basis of government is the use of force to coerce people. Why not give them a taste of their own medicine?
I worked as a vendor for a large company, so I had a badge for that large company. Somehow, my SSN got on the back of that badge. The internal newsgroup posters suggested blacking it out with marker and other ways of obfuscating it. So I did. When I had to get the badge updated, the lady looked at me sternly and said, "don't do that again!"
Whew, thanks. Now I can move to 'init'.
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No, of course not.
Some of us do. I am about 79% through the Linux kernel 1.2.12.
Yes, correct. Not a remote hole for default install. Otherwise, sendmail will mess up your track record.
I'm convinced. I think I'll go fight road rage.
Is this some new geek way to meet chicks? Did you ask her out? Was she dying to know how the products work?
Absolutely--because Windows is a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
What do you mean, "look like"?
Speaking about digging the Beatles, their first US tour was basically unhearable due to the mobs of screaming teenage girls. So in one sense, they're as bad as Britney.
Method for you: Just walk into any record store and buy a random CD, you might like it.
What does this say for all those GUI usability gurus? Does it really matter? Once people get used to a certain way of working, they are stuck there, and don't want to change.