Hey, you beat me to it (by 5 minutes-I was still reading the story when you posted). My bad, but I did not read your post before submitting mine. Well done.
Is Acacia going to file a patent application for sex, too, along with their patent on streaming video? We know that the US Patent Office hasn't been too alert about prior art...
Yeah, yeah, go ahead & reply w/ the obligatory joke about/.ers "not having to worry about getting sued for infringement."
They forgot to give credit where credit is due, though: ICE (intrusion countermeasures electronics, often fatal to the cracker), from William Gibson's novels.
perhaps a decade or more before systems are trusted the way we envision," a Microsoft spokesman said [emphasis mine].
How many generations is that in Net years? And what's "the way we envision"? It sounds like they're working toward the day when they'll have the power to compel people to "tell everyone about your MS-patriotism or we'll send you to a reeducation camp." What's good for MS is good for North Kore^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H... oh, to hell with it.
Koetzle also said that IT professionals should work more closely with Microsoft and companies that write software for Windows to make sure computer systems are more secure, instead of blaming Microsoft for security breaches.
and "Combat Engineers" are also called "sappers," because among their tasks in medieval warfare was to tunnel under defended walls (yep--that's what "undermining" is), then burn the braces they'd placed in the tunnels, in order to create a breach in the wall as the ground fell out from beneath it. That was sapping, and the tasks they perform on the battlefield in modern times are descended from that kind of objective: anything to do with "Uncivil Engineering"
Your statement just flipped the light switch for a fun moment for me, and thanks! If, as you say, anyone can be an artist, then I can call myself one now. My GF's a programmer for a living, but also a talented and hard-working sculptor. The criteria she uses as she evaluates her work (yep: she reality-tests the model of "self as artist" just like sanity-checking a piece of code) include being able to sell it successfully.
I write math problems for a living, and on the last contract, we also got a small sum for each of the drawings (graphs, diagrams and the like) that accompany the problems we write. No degree in art, only lots of math and a couple of science degrees, but I'm getting paid for it. I'm a professional artist!
I'm not flaming or taking issue with your idea; I just had fun extending the thought and applying it to myself. The only drawback I see is that I remember having heard the title "software artist" used by a fairly pretentious person a few years back, but I still think you've got something there.
I don't know if it's this way elsewhere, but in North Carolina (where I was once foolish enough to work as a legal assistant) they're "lawyers" once they have a law degree, but they're only "attorneys" after they've passed the bar exam. On the other hand, I have no Paralegal certificate but, as a legal assistant (with an earned M.A. and some experience), I was a "paralegal" simply because the senior partner in the firm said so. I know - in that field, "because I say so" counts for more (among them) than for the rest of the world. I'd say that law is the opposite of engineering...
I understand that it's your final paragraph that's ON-topic. Although your Bronco story does seem a little off-topic to me, I think that it's really, really cool.
{WISECRACK} SEE? If you'd been required to buy Ford gasoline for that Bronco, you'd never have had to worry about some dolt putting diesel fuel in it. Well, those OTHER people wouldn't have had to worry. Well... On the other hand, you'd have had to go without food, to pay for the gas...{/WISECRACK}
Antitrust laws prevent car manufacturers from owning oil companies, don't they? Here we have Lexmark and, now, Dell, using laws to create an economic situation that the antitrust laws were written to break up (customers' dependence on the company's commodity products to operate big-ticket items). It's pretty odd that, in the case of automobiles and oil, the economic costs and benefits created the situation and the Congress stopped it, while now the legislature and the courts are being used to create a continuing customer dependency in a situation where economics would prevent it.
You're right. And just yesterday my project manager & I found out that it's a favorite movie for both of us. She knew what I meant when I told her to email somebody & just write, "Up the voltage."
a spokesman for RIAA announced that their acronym will now stand for "...of the Americas" and that the Mexican Army is now their wholly-owned subsidiary.
No - it's because we don't refuse to elect people who turn out to be criminal by inclination. Draconian, excessive punishments for violation of laws that protect the cash cows of a few are a very effective way of convincing regular people that the laws are stupid and unjust and should be violated. This is a recipe for creating contempt for laws in general, and then we lose something that's awfully good to have: a belief by the general public that the government is really by and for the people. There's a lot of historical evidence to the contrary, but it's still a principle worth striving for.
I agree. My parents were strict about the importance of learning, and they led by example, too. On "tak[ing] it too far:" once when I was a lot younger, I dated a woman who joined the Army partly to get away from her whacko, too-strict parents. They thought that what she needed was "discipline" and "tough love," not noticing the fact that she did very well in school and was terrifically smart. She joined the Army and found freedom, and she loved it.
Is there a learning trait called "greptitude," for the ability to recognize particular patterns (and therefore new examples) from an abstract, system-level view of a phenomenon or a body of knowledge?
I agree that we don't all learn in similar ways. For example, I usually want an overview and a couple of cool examples; I'll find lots more on my own. Just don't waste my time belaboring all of the main points; they're obvious.
And your approach is brilliant, especially if teachers have the ability (= talent + permission from administrators) to run their classrooms in the same way: presenting materials in more than one way, to suit different learning styles. Good Post - Thanks!
Forget about little Johnny's "self-esteem;" you're writing about leading him to self-respect. I feel the same way about the taskmasters I had in Math classes, Humanities (philosophy and art history; a hard class) and yes, Band. I love them for what they taught me I could do. We didn't love them because we were sheep who needed to be led, but because they awakened in us abilities that we'd never suspected would be ours. By contrast, I still despise the slugs who taught to the least common denominator, and those who wanted us to be unthinking little robots. And I graduated from high school in 1977. In college and graduate school, at least I could choose all of the hard courses I wanted.
One minor point: one of your reply posts mentions your military analogy and "not gulags." Boot camp, from what I've heard from those who know, is anything but a gulag. It's purpose is not to warehouse "undesireables," but to breed proficiency, self-respect and pride in normal, healthy young adults who are learning to do something important. Prob'ly just a keystroke error:)
After I made this last post, I got to thinking . ..
So about 10 minutes ago, I finished loading and setting up Red Hat 8 in the larger partition on my disk. Then I clicked on "wheel mouse" for my wheel mouse (it had detected it as a 3-button mouse), and it went completely whacko -- the mouse wouldn't work at all, and I was in root - - I haven't had this much raw power since DOS!
I LOVE IT!!!
But I guess that dual-booting until I have a faint clue about what I'm doing wasn't such a bad idea...
Those millions must be working. Here I've been a little embarrassed for the week since I've bought it that my new Sony VAIO (which I love) is running XP. I've got a Linux distro ready to load (yup, in a For Dummies book), but I've wanted to run my new box for a while before tinkering. This article's author didn't seem to find any huge problems with XP. I haven't so far, either. I used a Mac at home for years, and I've laughed at the DOS, Win 3.1, 95, 98 and 2000 machines I've used at work. XP gives me a sense of wanting to look over my shoulder for the crashes and lockups that have been familiar since DOS.
It seems that large groups of folks act on the principle that,
(a) if it seems moral and ethical (for example, I'm not taking anything that somebody currently owns away from them, and
(b) the laws are complicated, unclear, currently in dispute, and seem to stake out large chunks of "what's fair" as "You Have To Pay For This From Now On" territory, then
(c) people are going to do it, regardless of any attempts by people with lots of cash and hubris to have the laws they want passed by those whose jobs are to write and interpret the law.
Folks are accustomed to being able to listen to copyrighted programs on TV or radio without paying extra. They don't expect to take things from grocery stores without paying. That distinction seems to drive a lot of behavioral choices.
We pay for Linux distros, knowing that we can DL them for free. Why? We're willing to pay people to save us time and effort, and we have the feeling that the prices they ask are reasonable for the time and effort they expend (actually, it feels like we're getting a great deal on the results of their efforts, and Thanks!). We're not willing to pay other people to cost us time and effort with their attempts to own our choices and limit our behavior with predatory laws. That's not what laws are for.
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I suppose you'll run a Box-Cox transformation to normalize the data...
From a Lexmark printer?
You'd get karma points for being modded up as Insightful and Funny!
Hey, you beat me to it (by 5 minutes-I was still reading the story when you posted). My bad, but I did not read your post before submitting mine. Well done.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead & reply w/ the obligatory joke about /.ers "not having to worry about getting sued for infringement."
They forgot to give credit where credit is due, though: ICE (intrusion countermeasures electronics, often fatal to the cracker), from William Gibson's novels.
This site collects your name & email before you can see the "April Fool! punch line. Use a pseudo.
How many generations is that in Net years? And what's "the way we envision"? It sounds like they're working toward the day when they'll have the power to compel people to "tell everyone about your MS-patriotism or we'll send you to a reeducation camp." What's good for MS is good for North Kore^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ... oh, to hell with it.
Wait - remind me: who's paying whom for software?and "Combat Engineers" are also called "sappers," because among their tasks in medieval warfare was to tunnel under defended walls (yep--that's what "undermining" is), then burn the braces they'd placed in the tunnels, in order to create a breach in the wall as the ground fell out from beneath it. That was sapping, and the tasks they perform on the battlefield in modern times are descended from that kind of objective: anything to do with "Uncivil Engineering"
I write math problems for a living, and on the last contract, we also got a small sum for each of the drawings (graphs, diagrams and the like) that accompany the problems we write. No degree in art, only lots of math and a couple of science degrees, but I'm getting paid for it. I'm a professional artist!
I'm not flaming or taking issue with your idea; I just had fun extending the thought and applying it to myself. The only drawback I see is that I remember having heard the title "software artist" used by a fairly pretentious person a few years back, but I still think you've got something there.
I'm an artist! I can't wait to tell Mom...
There are several other places to find it; I just googled it again. And get a dead-tree version for your Dad, too (that's where mine went).
{WISECRACK} SEE? If you'd been required to buy Ford gasoline for that Bronco, you'd never have had to worry about some dolt putting diesel fuel in it. Well, those OTHER people wouldn't have had to worry. Well... On the other hand, you'd have had to go without food, to pay for the gas...{/WISECRACK}
No - it's because we don't refuse to elect people who turn out to be criminal by inclination. Draconian, excessive punishments for violation of laws that protect the cash cows of a few are a very effective way of convincing regular people that the laws are stupid and unjust and should be violated. This is a recipe for creating contempt for laws in general, and then we lose something that's awfully good to have: a belief by the general public that the government is really by and for the people. There's a lot of historical evidence to the contrary, but it's still a principle worth striving for.
I agree that we don't all learn in similar ways. For example, I usually want an overview and a couple of cool examples; I'll find lots more on my own. Just don't waste my time belaboring all of the main points; they're obvious.
And your approach is brilliant, especially if teachers have the ability (= talent + permission from administrators) to run their classrooms in the same way: presenting materials in more than one way, to suit different learning styles. Good Post - Thanks!
One minor point: one of your reply posts mentions your military analogy and "not gulags." Boot camp, from what I've heard from those who know, is anything but a gulag. It's purpose is not to warehouse "undesireables," but to breed proficiency, self-respect and pride in normal, healthy young adults who are learning to do something important. Prob'ly just a keystroke error :)
Lord of the Benzene Rings,
Burning Chromium, and of course,
Jurassic Park (Teacher's Edition).
So about 10 minutes ago, I finished loading and setting up Red Hat 8 in the larger partition on my disk. Then I clicked on "wheel mouse" for my wheel mouse (it had detected it as a 3-button mouse), and it went completely whacko -- the mouse wouldn't work at all, and I was in root - - I haven't had this much raw power since DOS!
I LOVE IT!!!
But I guess that dual-booting until I have a faint clue about what I'm doing wasn't such a bad idea...
Now back to tinkering . . .
Did MS really write this OS?
(a) if it seems moral and ethical (for example, I'm not taking anything that somebody currently owns away from them, and
(b) the laws are complicated, unclear, currently in dispute, and seem to stake out large chunks of "what's fair" as "You Have To Pay For This From Now On" territory, then
(c) people are going to do it, regardless of any attempts by people with lots of cash and hubris to have the laws they want passed by those whose jobs are to write and interpret the law.
Folks are accustomed to being able to listen to copyrighted programs on TV or radio without paying extra. They don't expect to take things from grocery stores without paying. That distinction seems to drive a lot of behavioral choices.
We pay for Linux distros, knowing that we can DL them for free. Why? We're willing to pay people to save us time and effort, and we have the feeling that the prices they ask are reasonable for the time and effort they expend (actually, it feels like we're getting a great deal on the results of their efforts, and Thanks!). We're not willing to pay other people to cost us time and effort with their attempts to own our choices and limit our behavior with predatory laws. That's not what laws are for.