If this thing ever gets built, it will be military and have a designated no fly zone that will be strictly enforced. No civilian airports will be close to it either (America has nice big deserts).
It's not even so much that, but when buying a brand name computer, I can't really get away buying a computer without subsidizing MS with another license fee.
I'm still waiting to hear what is so amazing of Vista over XP SP1?
If I were EU, I would ask "So you have been shipping us crap the entire time or what?"
Really, MS, I can believe it if you said that Vista was an incremental improvement and therefore delay an incremental loss to Europe. It has been mostly incremental improvements since you have been making OSes. You have made three releases that I consider groundbreaking: Windows 3.0->Windows 95->Windows 2K.
And even these delayed wouldn't have cost Europe untold billions of dollars. In fact, in certain respects, it's been downhill for productivity since Win2K.
There is actually a problem, I can't turn in my papers twice or turnitin.com will flag it as plagiarism.
This happened to a friend of mine. She withdrew from a English 101 class one semester and retried it under a different teacher the next semester. She started turning in papers for which she got an A previously to this professor and when he returned them a month later, she was informed that she would fail the class and it would go on her permanent record.
She even showed that it was her own work and the teacher knew it was previous work, but told her that he had a policy against "self-plagiarism".
It went to the dean, and he let her off the hook since the professor neglected to explicitly state such a rule in his syllabus.
This whole episode was not Turnitin.com's fault per se, but there are making it harder for students to reuse their own IP:) Which I think is bogus, how can you plagiarize yourself?
As someone who has went through turnitin.com, I can see both sides. However, I'm an engineer at heart - IP to me is an abhorrent word in some respects. Our whole culture is built on copying, modifying, and building upon. English teachers should design papers, tests on understanding of the question being asked if they want to prevent plagiarism.
Honestly, if I were on the jury, I would first try to see what the little guy is getting sued for (how much $$$). Then I will see if this was someone trading peddling files left or right or if it was someone trading a few files much like kids used to do with CDs in the schoolyard.
If he was a peddler, I would weigh whether the jury can fine him or if the judge. If the jury can fine him, I'd be willing to put in a guilty verdict and the appropriate fine for a peddler. The person who trade a file here and there I would let off.
If the judge decides the fine, then I would put in a innocent vote under all circumstances. No one's life is worth ruining over a few songs.
I would not listen to any judge's or court's directions (nor yours parent poster) on how to vote either as this is an infraction against the power of a jury and voting by conscious (and ignoring the judge) is perfectly okay and is called Jury Nullification.
Even petroleum is only "energy storage", it didn't get there by itself, but through millions of years, solar energy, and decaying plants/animals life cycle as far as we know.
But agreed, current electrolysis is too costly, perhaps high temperature steam electrolysis too. Perhaps Fusion, when it comes, will solve these problems with sheer energy production, or high-efficiency solar panels or some other thing we can't currently imagine.
But whatever the case, "never" predictions have a long time coming to be proven right or wrong - so I don't bank on them.
As I understand it, this is not so much aimed at being the transportation fuel technology of tomorrow, but supplanting the battery in applications where longer running times or higher energy output is needed.
How is that WORSE than the entire country getting stupider and less knowledgeable every day of every year??
Mens sana in corpore sano. Mind, body connection, if you will.
And what the hell are you talking about, segregating ourselves away? This is the age of the attention whoring myspace user. The world needs more introverts.
Attention whoring yourself out on the internet does not mean you are any less isolated from real human contact. Perhaps attention whoring yourself out on myspace is a symptom of isolation in itself.
And you may be surprised on the amount of introverts letting loose on the net and being completely different in real life.
Perhaps you meant the world needs to pay less attention (stop rewarding) to attention whores in the first place.
Is that these stadiums and facilities are off-limits to anyone but a few select school students.
It opened my eyes when I was in Europe, that when the school gynastic grounds were not in use (after school, weekends), the people of the community could use it. More often than not, they were not even "school grounds" officially, but community grounds that the school happened to be nearby and would thus use for their athletes.
I know there will be cries about pedophiles and such, but as a society, we tend to segregrate ourselves away into our niches anyway behind fences, gated communities, security guards, and what not, so much that it has gone into a completely unhealthy territory.
The other thing that ticks me off is the continual elite treatment/sexist treatment of Football. There is simply no woman's equivalent, even though Field Hockey did make a blip every so often. I was a soccer player. Despite the sport's continuing growth here in the US, we get second rate fields, minimal funding (and the vast majority of girls' sports are similiarly ignored in many schools) in favor of Football. The soccer team/field hockey teams can be state champions and the Football team can be complete losers and they will be still be treated better.
With such foresight with games, will the hardware manufacturers catch on as well? I wonder if buttons will come with the controllers or will they be an extra, "optional" feature to, to be purchased on a 1 by 1 and on a "as needed" basis!
Seriously, it's cool if true EXTRAS are open to purchase, but I tend to feel jipped if a product doesn't even provide the basic experience I was expecting out of the box.
Actually, while we are on this topic, the phrase is not just "owns up" but "owns up to" which could replaced by "admits" or the other words you suggested.
The problem is not the improvement plateau (all gaming consoles of the same generation are roughly on the same order of the magnitude with each other).
For instance, few people today make much of the graphical differences between Super Nintendo and the Genesis even though at the time it was a big deal for them.
The problem is that after a certain point with PCs/consoles, you have to pay 100% extra for an improvement of 10%-20% in performance.
In consoles, I think many people will see it as better to just go for the slighter lower system (~$250) today and in a few years, buy another next-generation system for similiar money that would blow away any of the older systems, even the high end one. In this way, they keep getting comparable improvements at $250 a pop instead of $400-$500 a pop, for a system that is almost as good, and with the $150-250, they can buy a few good games and accessories to boot.
I have seen forums come and go while certain ones stay. They have several factors, but in terms of administration:
1. I would think the first step would be to go out and attract/recruit the core group of people who share your vision and are enthusiastic about it. The core group is very important, as they set the energy and the mood for everyone else. They are also the ones you will eventually trust to place moderators when the forum outgrows your oversight.
2. Set clear and simple policies and rules that encourage the atmosphere/cooperation you want in place and enforce them consistently. Be fair and explain the actions you take and have the moderators explain themselves to the group when they make a decision, don't make decisions that are arbitrary. People can see when you are being fair or when you are taking sides due to varying factors such as cronyism, partisanship, etcetera.
3. No censorship of purely political speech. It may see like "no duh!" but enough political forums decide to censor views that are not compatible with the moderators/leader of the board. Even over objectionable views, there are ways to win over them without resorting to this.
Okay, that aside, let's discuss what you want. You want a non-partisan board. The origin of partisan is of course party, like political party. The role of the political party was always to band individuals together into a force that has power. The downside of a political party is that over time a member had to trade in his individual thinking and go with the groupthink of the group, sometimes with issues that had little to do with the original goal of the group.
Political parties/movements have done or promoted some good, such as the abolitionist movement, women's suffrage, and of course our own revolution.
Political Parties have also done a lot of bad: the Communist Party in Russia and elsewhere where they have actually taken power, the National Socialist party, etcetera. In America, Political Parties have not been this evil, but have set the current political system (which I think should be unconstitutional) and climate to their advantage and have wrought the current situation.
In this sense, the way to minimize partisanship is to get in your core group of people who are for independent politicians (no party affiliation mandatory) and where political parties have little meaning to them. Meaning that your core group should be people that don't follow a party line, but decide issue by issues. People who staunchly stick with their parties will always have a conflicting interest to be partisan as a show of loyalty/teamplaying for their party.
You will likely also want people who are not afraid to blast both sides equally.
Like many social human endeavors, since politics is the assertion of one's own ego, don't expect a lack of shrill bickering though.
There are Linux distros that are made for minimal hardware, like Puppy Linux, Vector Linux, etcetera. I would absolutely recommend linux over Windows 95 if these computers are meant to be connected to the net.
But that's the problem, this question does not give me enough information to say one way or the other here.
Win95 will be better for educational software, but will be a nightmare to keep clean, even if not net connected, just by having kids playing with it, changing settings randomly, and what not. They'd have to be reimaged every so often if going the Win95 route.
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Then you aren't the target audience in the first place.
If this thing ever gets built, it will be military and have a designated no fly zone that will be strictly enforced. No civilian airports will be close to it either (America has nice big deserts).
I'm sure Apple isn't:)
Duped in two?
Why, would you give her a root or power user password to enable that?
If they can regenerate organs, will they be able to regenerate the largest organ, skin? This would help burn victims immeasurably.
It's not even so much that, but when buying a brand name computer, I can't really get away buying a computer without subsidizing MS with another license fee.
I'm still waiting to hear what is so amazing of Vista over XP SP1?
If I were EU, I would ask "So you have been shipping us crap the entire time or what?"
Really, MS, I can believe it if you said that Vista was an incremental improvement and therefore delay an incremental loss to Europe. It has been mostly incremental improvements since you have been making OSes. You have made three releases that I consider groundbreaking: Windows 3.0->Windows 95->Windows 2K.
And even these delayed wouldn't have cost Europe untold billions of dollars. In fact, in certain respects, it's been downhill for productivity since Win2K.
MS, please don't take us all for idiots.
There is actually a problem, I can't turn in my papers twice or turnitin.com will flag it as plagiarism.
This happened to a friend of mine. She withdrew from a English 101 class one semester and retried it under a different teacher the next semester. She started turning in papers for which she got an A previously to this professor and when he returned them a month later, she was informed that she would fail the class and it would go on her permanent record.
She even showed that it was her own work and the teacher knew it was previous work, but told her that he had a policy against "self-plagiarism".
It went to the dean, and he let her off the hook since the professor neglected to explicitly state such a rule in his syllabus.
This whole episode was not Turnitin.com's fault per se, but there are making it harder for students to reuse their own IP:) Which I think is bogus, how can you plagiarize yourself?
As someone who has went through turnitin.com, I can see both sides. However, I'm an engineer at heart - IP to me is an abhorrent word in some respects. Our whole culture is built on copying, modifying, and building upon. English teachers should design papers, tests on understanding of the question being asked if they want to prevent plagiarism.
Honestly, if I were on the jury, I would first try to see what the little guy is getting sued for (how much $$$). Then I will see if this was someone trading peddling files left or right or if it was someone trading a few files much like kids used to do with CDs in the schoolyard.
If he was a peddler, I would weigh whether the jury can fine him or if the judge. If the jury can fine him, I'd be willing to put in a guilty verdict and the appropriate fine for a peddler. The person who trade a file here and there I would let off.
If the judge decides the fine, then I would put in a innocent vote under all circumstances. No one's life is worth ruining over a few songs.
I would not listen to any judge's or court's directions (nor yours parent poster) on how to vote either as this is an infraction against the power of a jury and voting by conscious (and ignoring the judge) is perfectly okay and is called Jury Nullification.
Now I see where you are coming from^_^
Even petroleum is only "energy storage", it didn't get there by itself, but through millions of years, solar energy, and decaying plants/animals life cycle as far as we know.
But agreed, current electrolysis is too costly, perhaps high temperature steam electrolysis too. Perhaps Fusion, when it comes, will solve these problems with sheer energy production, or high-efficiency solar panels or some other thing we can't currently imagine.
But whatever the case, "never" predictions have a long time coming to be proven right or wrong - so I don't bank on them.
As I understand it, this is not so much aimed at being the transportation fuel technology of tomorrow, but supplanting the battery in applications where longer running times or higher energy output is needed.
Mens sana in corpore sano. Mind, body connection, if you will.
Attention whoring yourself out on the internet does not mean you are any less isolated from real human contact. Perhaps attention whoring yourself out on myspace is a symptom of isolation in itself.
And you may be surprised on the amount of introverts letting loose on the net and being completely different in real life.
Perhaps you meant the world needs to pay less attention (stop rewarding) to attention whores in the first place.
Is that these stadiums and facilities are off-limits to anyone but a few select school students.
It opened my eyes when I was in Europe, that when the school gynastic grounds were not in use (after school, weekends), the people of the community could use it. More often than not, they were not even "school grounds" officially, but community grounds that the school happened to be nearby and would thus use for their athletes.
I know there will be cries about pedophiles and such, but as a society, we tend to segregrate ourselves away into our niches anyway behind fences, gated communities, security guards, and what not, so much that it has gone into a completely unhealthy territory.
The other thing that ticks me off is the continual elite treatment/sexist treatment of Football. There is simply no woman's equivalent, even though Field Hockey did make a blip every so often. I was a soccer player. Despite the sport's continuing growth here in the US, we get second rate fields, minimal funding (and the vast majority of girls' sports are similiarly ignored in many schools) in favor of Football. The soccer team/field hockey teams can be state champions and the Football team can be complete losers and they will be still be treated better.
With such foresight with games, will the hardware manufacturers catch on as well? I wonder if buttons will come with the controllers or will they be an extra, "optional" feature to, to be purchased on a 1 by 1 and on a "as needed" basis!
Seriously, it's cool if true EXTRAS are open to purchase, but I tend to feel jipped if a product doesn't even provide the basic experience I was expecting out of the box.
in webtraffic.
Good for them.
Will they sue Yahoo/MSN next?
Actually, while we are on this topic, the phrase is not just "owns up" but "owns up to" which could replaced by "admits" or the other words you suggested.
Agreed, because DVDs are the same way. The makers of those can decide if they are region free or not.
The problem is not the improvement plateau (all gaming consoles of the same generation are roughly on the same order of the magnitude with each other).
For instance, few people today make much of the graphical differences between Super Nintendo and the Genesis even though at the time it was a big deal for them.
The problem is that after a certain point with PCs/consoles, you have to pay 100% extra for an improvement of 10%-20% in performance.
In consoles, I think many people will see it as better to just go for the slighter lower system (~$250) today and in a few years, buy another next-generation system for similiar money that would blow away any of the older systems, even the high end one. In this way, they keep getting comparable improvements at $250 a pop instead of $400-$500 a pop, for a system that is almost as good, and with the $150-250, they can buy a few good games and accessories to boot.
I have seen forums come and go while certain ones stay. They have several factors, but in terms of administration:
1. I would think the first step would be to go out and attract/recruit the core group of people who share your vision and are enthusiastic about it. The core group is very important, as they set the energy and the mood for everyone else. They are also the ones you will eventually trust to place moderators when the forum outgrows your oversight.
2. Set clear and simple policies and rules that encourage the atmosphere/cooperation you want in place and enforce them consistently. Be fair and explain the actions you take and have the moderators explain themselves to the group when they make a decision, don't make decisions that are arbitrary. People can see when you are being fair or when you are taking sides due to varying factors such as cronyism, partisanship, etcetera.
3. No censorship of purely political speech. It may see like "no duh!" but enough political forums decide to censor views that are not compatible with the moderators/leader of the board. Even over objectionable views, there are ways to win over them without resorting to this.
Okay, that aside, let's discuss what you want. You want a non-partisan board. The origin of partisan is of course party, like political party. The role of the political party was always to band individuals together into a force that has power. The downside of a political party is that over time a member had to trade in his individual thinking and go with the groupthink of the group, sometimes with issues that had little to do with the original goal of the group.
Political parties/movements have done or promoted some good, such as the abolitionist movement, women's suffrage, and of course our own revolution.
Political Parties have also done a lot of bad: the Communist Party in Russia and elsewhere where they have actually taken power, the National Socialist party, etcetera. In America, Political Parties have not been this evil, but have set the current political system (which I think should be unconstitutional) and climate to their advantage and have wrought the current situation.
In this sense, the way to minimize partisanship is to get in your core group of people who are for independent politicians (no party affiliation mandatory) and where political parties have little meaning to them. Meaning that your core group should be people that don't follow a party line, but decide issue by issues. People who staunchly stick with their parties will always have a conflicting interest to be partisan as a show of loyalty/teamplaying for their party.
You will likely also want people who are not afraid to blast both sides equally.
Like many social human endeavors, since politics is the assertion of one's own ego, don't expect a lack of shrill bickering though.
Stop thinking so much. We don't your little mind to overheat and melt down. If it did, we'd have to go to great trouble replacing the 8086 chip in it.
Darn, hit submit too early.
Since Distrowach.com lists LFS as #56 among distributions, there's a fair case that it can be called a distribution, since others view it as such.
A recipe with free ingredients:)
There are Linux distros that are made for minimal hardware, like Puppy Linux, Vector Linux, etcetera. I would absolutely recommend linux over Windows 95 if these computers are meant to be connected to the net.
But that's the problem, this question does not give me enough information to say one way or the other here.
Win95 will be better for educational software, but will be a nightmare to keep clean, even if not net connected, just by having kids playing with it, changing settings randomly, and what not. They'd have to be reimaged every so often if going the Win95 route.