Gee, thanks for warning me. You're right not to take the time listen to anybody with "political" views. You might have to think for yourself. It's
easier to listen only to the "apolitical" people and accept everything they say at face value.
I said I won't subscribe to their mag (ie, won't give them money which would support their lobbying agenda), I didn't say I don't listen to them. Big diff.
More to the point, the poster I was replying to called CU "conservative", which is what I was trying to correct.
The University of Michigan gives +20 points on their 150 point admissions scale to blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. They're currently spending $millions to convince a federal judge that this isn't racist.
Waiting until students are of voting age to merely pretend that the government education monopoly did a first-class job is insane. We need to break that monopoly and give parents a decent chance at sending their kids to good elementary and secondary schools. In short, we need state-level voucher systems. Too bad it doesn't look like it's going to happen, partially because the Republican base is in suburban districts that general have decent public schools, but mostly because the Democrats have successfully made voting for their party a test of racial loyalty (kinda like they did to southern whites half a century ago), and the monopoly teachers unions bankroll the Democrats. The Republican Party would have one hell of a wedge issue if it had the balls to use it. Pity.
But if you go in with a nice conservative magazine not known for politics...
Actually, that hasn't been true for years. Consumer Reports has been pushing a left-leaning political agenda, socialized medicine in particular. Product reviews are still their primary focus, but I won't subscribe because of their politics.
The linked article is good, if lacking in specifics (which sites are "controversial"?). Just be aware that CU is not apolitical.
Kinda like how taxes became "contributions" (at the barrel of a gun...) and spending (pissing away those "contributions") became "investments" in the previous Administration.
It'll be interesting to see what the new folks do about Carnivore once they've settled in.
That's the thing, now that Internet access is a maturing industry and the voice-line modem kludge is no longer adequate, you really need to own your own infrastructure. I keep waiting for someone to build fibre-to-the-home and leapfrog the cable cos hybrid plant and especially Ma Bell's copper hacks (DSL). You could use the fibre as a digital TV (think DSS receiver over landline, only HDTV-everything) and digital telephone transport with analog converter box (IP multicast for TV?) because they're just another datastream, but high-bandwidth data transport would be its primary purpose. Yes, capital intensive, but it'd be amusing to see how the existing monopolies (with their sunk costs) deal.
1) Ditto everything Alien54 said.
2) An effective antimissile system would significantly reduce the value of the military hardware and technology that Russia would like to sell.
3) China's plans to invade Taiwan depend on softening up the islands defenses with a ballistic missile barrage. The missile batteries have been built, tho I suppose they could augment them. If we can build an antimissile system in Taiwan, it would make invasion considerably more difficult.
4) When piss-poor countries like North Korea are building ICBM's (they lobbed a three stage missile over northern Japan a couple of years ago), it's obvious that they consider them pretty damn useful, and America really ought to have a defense against them less drastic than turning their nation into a glass parking lot.
You really shouldn't take the word of the butchers of Tiennemen Square at face value, much less a couple of has-beens.
If the top 1% of the wealthiest people in the country each contributed half of their money/resources to this and other problems, we could have an entire world with a solid communications, travel, and most importantly, EDUCATIONAL infrastructure. THE ENTIRE WORLD. But, no, the rich would never do that; it's their money and they earned it, and screw everyone else.
Actually, the wealthiest 1% already have about that much of their labor confiscated by taxes, and it hasn't paid for your fantasy in this country, let alone the entire world. (The top 50% of taxpayers, from the middle of the middle class on up, pay 96% of federal income taxes.) The government squanders most of that confiscated wealth.
It would be interesting to see what private charities would come up with if they weren't crowded out by the bloated, wasteful government social programs (and constrained by related regulations). Between the greater efficiency and effectiveness of the private charities and vastly lower taxes and regulations making it easier to create wealth and acquire property, we really could wipe out poverty... but it doesn't look like it'll happen.
I think most of us want to help out, but with the poor and needy voting for the politicians who want to enslave us, what's the point?
AMD is looking for a partner to help finance its third fab (to be completed in 2003 or 2004). Now, they had the same plan for their Dresden fab, which turned out to be a ruse to lower Intel's guard (surprise, nothing but GHz-class Athlons!), but this time, why not merge with Transmeta? They're already cooperating, Transmeta could use part-ownership in a state-of-the-art fab, it'd expand AMD's market into webpads and whatnot, and it might actually push AMD's P/E ratio out of the single digits. Oh yes, and AMD has about $1.3 BILLION in cash on hand, which is a tad more than Transmeta has (cough!).
Yes, this does make more sense for Transmeta than for AMD, but a merger is still plausible. AMD bought NexGen for their cool technology, and wound up with the P3-whomping Athlon. They could do it again.
1) Remember Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Coalition (PMRC)? (Thus the "Even Tipper thinks I'm allllllright!" line in Aerosmith's F.I.N.E.)
2) Newt Gingrich was for ditching crypto controls several years ago, wrote a very nice two page essay in Boardwatch Magazine (which I still have). Newt, while no longer in office, is about as pro-technology as you can get. Meanwhile, it took massive bribes--er, "contributions" from Silicon Valley to get the Clintonistas to finally back off on those crypto regs.
3) Larry Ellison, Scott McNealy, and various other tech $billionaires bribed the Clinton Administration into declaring war against their competitor Microsoft. Up until then, SV was largely apolitical. Now everyone knows that if they don't make their "contributions" to the Democratic Party, bad things might happen to them.
4) Read Nat Hentoff's (libertarian First Amendment advocate) syndicated columns for more interesting info.
I see President Bush promoting filtering software and parental supervision as a means of countering 'net porn, which, by golly, is all he's been doing.
And we right-wingers have been heavy users of the 'net to get our political message past the liberal media censors (National Review, Town Hall, Matt Drudge, etc). We probably wouldn't have won this past election without the 'net and most of us know it.
Is there a Linux IM client that can also handle the voice capabilities of Yahoo! Messenger or one of the other services? Yahoo!'s official client doesn't do voice chat under Linux. Would be nice not to have to touch Ameritech's crappy phone lines at all (I have a cable modem).
Also, anyone know if those Plantronics DSP-series headsets work under Linux? The DSP-500 in particular. They plug in to the USB port. Linux-USB lists Telex's equivalent as working, so I'm hopeful.
How about giving away 10% of your precious post-tax income?
I'll start giving again when the poor stop voting for the parasites that confiscate over four months per year of my labor by force.
Having been there and done that...
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If you can do the math, do CS. Sign up for classes that teach you things that would be difficult to pick up on your own. Discreet math, finite automata, compiler construction, and all that. The more applied classes, like a general C class, are well and good and all, but you can pick up the K&R C book and teach yourself that. (Yes, Dr. Haynam, now I understand what you meant by "We teach you how to be Computer Scientists, not how to get a job!") Tho I'd recommend Java as a starting point, since that's where the market is going and it's a *much* nicer language. Get Netbeans and the current Java JDK and hit Sun's Java Tutorial, and upgrade to 256megs RAM if at all possible (for Netbeans, or just use the JDK with your favorite text editor). Pick up the appropriate math classes, linear algebra and math modeling especially (the latter being the only math class I actually did great in). Do the stuff you won't be likely to get to after graduation (math, theory). Learn object-oriented design. Don't try to take every CS class that's offered. Definitely do co-op in your junior or senior year, *that's* where you'll learn the applied stuff, and get paid and start building your resume too.
If you just want to build stuff with existing tools, CIS is probably the way to go. If you want to build the tools and/or full-blown from-scratch software, do CS.
Ditto, and you can buy the ebook version (standard-issue PDF) direct from the publisher:
Which I did. I've found that Mr. Notebook makes a very nice ebook reader. Manning Publications has put out several of their books in PDF format.
Aww shoot... it looks like they're switching over to a new ebook format for their newer books (like Up to Speed with Swing, 2nd Edition, see the "cyberbook" link), and they're not saying what yet. This could be bad...
Hell yes! Dune looked stunning on my satellite dish. Hopefully (well, almost certainly) they'll release a DVD version so you poor cable folks can see what the miniseries really looks like:-).
1) Do complete geological survey of the moon to locate and quantify ice and mineral deposits.
2) Build lunar base(s), mining and refining plants, making maximum use of lunar materials.
3) Build spacecraft hulls with the refined metal, bringing electronics and (nuclear?) engines from Earth. The relatively low lunar gravity would make spacecraft launches practical (perhaps assisted by a catapult?), and larger crafts could be assembled in lunar orbit.
4) Go to Mars, go to the asteroid belt, leveraging the materials and technology gained on the moon.
5) Repeat indefinitely.
Concurrent with the latter steps, bring back rare materials to Earth to at least subsidize the costs. Perhaps construct "drop pods" (parachute drag, like the old Apollo capsules) for bulk material return?
The scary thing is, it sounds like the Chinese are following this path while America sits on its collective ass.
Actually, the Netbeans Java IDE is nice and snappy on my 900MHz Athlon (256megs RAM, 7200RPM IDE drive, Win2K SP1), unlike the old P2-400 (256megs RAM, Maxtor 6gig IDE, NT4 SP6a) at work. *Huge* diff. Y'gotta get one. Hopefully Dell will come to their senses and start selling Athlons by the time the three year lease on the work machine is up; if not, I may have to strongarm the Powers That Be to let me custom-build my own box (heh heh heh)...
It's neck-and-neck now, with Bush ahead by 16,000 votes, 37% of precincts reporting. Detroit tends to come in last, and they're a hopeless Democrat wasteland. Still, with Abraham thrashing Stabenow in the Senate race, there's hope for Bush?
I actually got an automated poll call from Rasmussen Polls (or some such thing) about 8pm tonight. I hung up on the machine, tho, after they asked me what race I am (pissed me off). Maybe I messed up their exit polls;-).
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I said I won't subscribe to their mag (ie, won't give them money which would support their lobbying agenda), I didn't say I don't listen to them. Big diff.
More to the point, the poster I was replying to called CU "conservative", which is what I was trying to correct.
The University of Michigan gives +20 points on their 150 point admissions scale to blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. They're currently spending $millions to convince a federal judge that this isn't racist.
Waiting until students are of voting age to merely pretend that the government education monopoly did a first-class job is insane. We need to break that monopoly and give parents a decent chance at sending their kids to good elementary and secondary schools. In short, we need state-level voucher systems. Too bad it doesn't look like it's going to happen, partially because the Republican base is in suburban districts that general have decent public schools, but mostly because the Democrats have successfully made voting for their party a test of racial loyalty (kinda like they did to southern whites half a century ago), and the monopoly teachers unions bankroll the Democrats. The Republican Party would have one hell of a wedge issue if it had the balls to use it. Pity.
Actually, that hasn't been true for years. Consumer Reports has been pushing a left-leaning political agenda, socialized medicine in particular. Product reviews are still their primary focus, but I won't subscribe because of their politics.
The linked article is good, if lacking in specifics (which sites are "controversial"?). Just be aware that CU is not apolitical.
Kinda like how taxes became "contributions" (at the barrel of a gun...) and spending (pissing away those "contributions") became "investments" in the previous Administration.
It'll be interesting to see what the new folks do about Carnivore once they've settled in.
DejaGoo
That's the thing, now that Internet access is a maturing industry and the voice-line modem kludge is no longer adequate, you really need to own your own infrastructure. I keep waiting for someone to build fibre-to-the-home and leapfrog the cable cos hybrid plant and especially Ma Bell's copper hacks (DSL). You could use the fibre as a digital TV (think DSS receiver over landline, only HDTV-everything) and digital telephone transport with analog converter box (IP multicast for TV?) because they're just another datastream, but high-bandwidth data transport would be its primary purpose. Yes, capital intensive, but it'd be amusing to see how the existing monopolies (with their sunk costs) deal.
Still in town, send me an email? (Show yourself, o Anonymous Coward from my past! :-)
1) Ditto everything Alien54 said.
2) An effective antimissile system would significantly reduce the value of the military hardware and technology that Russia would like to sell.
3) China's plans to invade Taiwan depend on softening up the islands defenses with a ballistic missile barrage. The missile batteries have been built, tho I suppose they could augment them. If we can build an antimissile system in Taiwan, it would make invasion considerably more difficult.
4) When piss-poor countries like North Korea are building ICBM's (they lobbed a three stage missile over northern Japan a couple of years ago), it's obvious that they consider them pretty damn useful, and America really ought to have a defense against them less drastic than turning their nation into a glass parking lot.
You really shouldn't take the word of the butchers of Tiennemen Square at face value, much less a couple of has-beens.
Not only did you just make my point, you've posted an excellent argument in favor of the Second Amendment.
And a big ,,!,, to the leftist censors who keep modding down my posts. Hypocrits.
Actually, the wealthiest 1% already have about that much of their labor confiscated by taxes, and it hasn't paid for your fantasy in this country, let alone the entire world. (The top 50% of taxpayers, from the middle of the middle class on up, pay 96% of federal income taxes.) The government squanders most of that confiscated wealth.
It would be interesting to see what private charities would come up with if they weren't crowded out by the bloated, wasteful government social programs (and constrained by related regulations). Between the greater efficiency and effectiveness of the private charities and vastly lower taxes and regulations making it easier to create wealth and acquire property, we really could wipe out poverty... but it doesn't look like it'll happen.
I think most of us want to help out, but with the poor and needy voting for the politicians who want to enslave us, what's the point?
...late at night, Searching for Beta Fisher...
AMD is looking for a partner to help finance its third fab (to be completed in 2003 or 2004). Now, they had the same plan for their Dresden fab, which turned out to be a ruse to lower Intel's guard (surprise, nothing but GHz-class Athlons!), but this time, why not merge with Transmeta? They're already cooperating, Transmeta could use part-ownership in a state-of-the-art fab, it'd expand AMD's market into webpads and whatnot, and it might actually push AMD's P/E ratio out of the single digits. Oh yes, and AMD has about $1.3 BILLION in cash on hand, which is a tad more than Transmeta has (cough!).
Yes, this does make more sense for Transmeta than for AMD, but a merger is still plausible. AMD bought NexGen for their cool technology, and wound up with the P3-whomping Athlon. They could do it again.
2) Newt Gingrich was for ditching crypto controls several years ago, wrote a very nice two page essay in Boardwatch Magazine (which I still have). Newt, while no longer in office, is about as pro-technology as you can get. Meanwhile, it took massive bribes--er, "contributions" from Silicon Valley to get the Clintonistas to finally back off on those crypto regs.
3) Larry Ellison, Scott McNealy, and various other tech $billionaires bribed the Clinton Administration into declaring war against their competitor Microsoft. Up until then, SV was largely apolitical. Now everyone knows that if they don't make their "contributions" to the Democratic Party, bad things might happen to them.
4) Read Nat Hentoff's (libertarian First Amendment advocate) syndicated columns for more interesting info.
I see President Bush promoting filtering software and parental supervision as a means of countering 'net porn, which, by golly, is all he's been doing.
And we right-wingers have been heavy users of the 'net to get our political message past the liberal media censors (National Review, Town Hall, Matt Drudge, etc). We probably wouldn't have won this past election without the 'net and most of us know it.
Yahoo! does IM too, including voice.
Neat way for the government to get a complete list of national email addresses.
RoboSurgeons, from the Nov/Dec 2000 issue. Complete with pictures and links.
Is there a Linux IM client that can also handle the voice capabilities of Yahoo! Messenger or one of the other services? Yahoo!'s official client doesn't do voice chat under Linux. Would be nice not to have to touch Ameritech's crappy phone lines at all (I have a cable modem).
Also, anyone know if those Plantronics DSP-series headsets work under Linux? The DSP-500 in particular. They plug in to the USB port. Linux-USB lists Telex's equivalent as working, so I'm hopeful.
I'll start giving again when the poor stop voting for the parasites that confiscate over four months per year of my labor by force.
If you just want to build stuff with existing tools, CIS is probably the way to go. If you want to build the tools and/or full-blown from-scratch software, do CS.
Which I did. I've found that Mr. Notebook makes a very nice ebook reader. Manning Publications has put out several of their books in PDF format.
Aww shoot... it looks like they're switching over to a new ebook format for their newer books (like Up to Speed with Swing, 2nd Edition, see the "cyberbook" link), and they're not saying what yet. This could be bad...
Hell yes! Dune looked stunning on my satellite dish. Hopefully (well, almost certainly) they'll release a DVD version so you poor cable folks can see what the miniseries really looks like :-).
http://www.amdzone.com/flask.cfm
Athlon-optimized FlaskMPEG on a 1.2GHz DDR Athlon board now outguns Intel's P4 optimized version, with more improvements to come.
1) Do complete geological survey of the moon to locate and quantify ice and mineral deposits.
2) Build lunar base(s), mining and refining plants, making maximum use of lunar materials.
3) Build spacecraft hulls with the refined metal, bringing electronics and (nuclear?) engines from Earth. The relatively low lunar gravity would make spacecraft launches practical (perhaps assisted by a catapult?), and larger crafts could be assembled in lunar orbit.
4) Go to Mars, go to the asteroid belt, leveraging the materials and technology gained on the moon.
5) Repeat indefinitely.
Concurrent with the latter steps, bring back rare materials to Earth to at least subsidize the costs. Perhaps construct "drop pods" (parachute drag, like the old Apollo capsules) for bulk material return?
The scary thing is, it sounds like the Chinese are following this path while America sits on its collective ass.
Actually, the Netbeans Java IDE is nice and snappy on my 900MHz Athlon (256megs RAM, 7200RPM IDE drive, Win2K SP1), unlike the old P2-400 (256megs RAM, Maxtor 6gig IDE, NT4 SP6a) at work. *Huge* diff. Y'gotta get one. Hopefully Dell will come to their senses and start selling Athlons by the time the three year lease on the work machine is up; if not, I may have to strongarm the Powers That Be to let me custom-build my own box (heh heh heh)...
It's neck-and-neck now, with Bush ahead by 16,000 votes, 37% of precincts reporting. Detroit tends to come in last, and they're a hopeless Democrat wasteland. Still, with Abraham thrashing Stabenow in the Senate race, there's hope for Bush?
;-).
I actually got an automated poll call from Rasmussen Polls (or some such thing) about 8pm tonight. I hung up on the machine, tho, after they asked me what race I am (pissed me off). Maybe I messed up their exit polls