They make a good point: this is not about people silencing free speech. Posting the crack online is about civil disobedience against the completely unfair DMCA. It's not about copyrighting a number. It's about keeping people from legally using copyrighted material you've legally purchased. This seems to be an important point missed by most people. It's not a First Amendment issue, it's an anti-consumer issue.
The argument everyone misses in the "analog vs digital" debate is this: we've been developing analog technology for about 120 years now. We've been doing digital music for what, 30? So much more time, money, and R&D have gone into developing analog recording and playback devices. They've been tweaked, revised, and perfected for maximum quality.
Right now, they sound better because they are made better. And now we're just going to throw away analog recording because something new has come along?
"I wanna travel around the world, and have a map with pins in it showing where I've been. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it stays up."
It's really hard to tell if HFCS has any real effect, so maybe it might not have an effect. But it would get rid of some of the crazy things we do to protect corn farmers, like tariffs etc.
Why don't we just switch to using cane sugar for our food and have the farmers sell all that excess corn for biofuel? It might make us a little less fat, too.
Generally, those who are heavy Linux users like it because the interface is fundamentally different. To cater to these people, you need something that acts like what they are comfortable with. And as the saying goes: "Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly."
This is hysterical. Not because it's stupid (it's not), but because of the sheer futility in trying to win over the "Linux Afcionado".
Question: "Are you aware of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing --" Answer: "You mean Treacherous Computing, don't you? I spit on your pathetic proprietary software!"
And "Try to avoid the Microsoft versus Open Source software conversation and focus on specific workloads and IT pain points instead," by which of course they mean "give it up, you'll never convince these people; just beg to have them buy 'just one little server.' Make a frowny face when you ask."
"Rely on Get the Facts evidence --" "Oh man, I read that bullshit on Slashdot. That TCO metric is a pile of crap --" (salesman turns and runs out the door)
How can you rebut something like that without simply discrediting the study? First, it's a single study done by a university, and most likely is done poorly or ignores obvious factors. It flies in the face of everything people know about learning. I've taught kids, and I've taught adults, and it helps both to work. I started reading at 3 because my parents read to me and had me practice at a young age. Maybe there's something wrong with the kind of homework we're giving kids, or the amount, but are they really suggesting that having kids practice the skills they learn in school is useless?
(after all, _I_ was hired, and my main motivation for interviewing was to get a free trip to Seattle and to mouth-off about how awesome linux was to a bunch of MSFT people:)
Actually, big bands make bizarre requests like "23 brown M&Ms in the green room" to make sure that the venue follows the technical rider to their exact specifications — people can get hurt or electrocuted sometimes if the venue doesn't follow them. Van Halen did this, and when they found that the M&Ms weren't to spec, very often there was something seriously wrong the important stuff.
I'm annoyed by ESR as much as the next guy, but his complaints concerning CUPS were valid, and they did provide a pedagogical example as to how user interfaces in OSS can be improved. But, for some reason he seems more interested in End Of The World hyperbole than in providing the world with solutions. I don't remember CATB sounding anything like the stuff he writes now. It's been a while, but I remember CATB sounding more like Neal Stephenson's "In The Beginning...". For some reason, he keeps getting crazier and crazier, seemingly for the sake of promoting himself, when, in reality, if he did the opposite his opinion would be much more respected in the community.
Actually, this legacy user stopped going to the page itself because I could see my Inbox from my MSN Messenger account and I never got anything but spam - and after 15 days they promptly deleted all my messages. 10 years of archived emails, LOST. FOREVER.
Of course I didn't go back, because I was seriously getting about 4 times as much spam in my inbox as the "spam box" - and believe me, I did thousands of messages worth of "training" Hotmail. I just don't think they care about filtering spam. Now I use gmail, and I get about 1 spam a day sneaking in (usually with no actual advertising content), which is a 99% success rate, with only 2 false positives in the entire history of my email account.
I don't see why anyone would use Hotmail over Gmail, period.
Actually this legacy user stopped going to the page itself because I could see my Inbox from my MSN Messenger account and I never got anything but spam - and after 15 days they promptly deleted all my messages. 10 years of archived emails, LOST. FOREVER.
Of course I didn't go back, because I was seriously getting about 4 times as much spam in my inbox as the "spam box" - and believe me, I did thousands of messages worth of "training" Hotmail. I just don't think they care about filtering spam. Now I use gmail, and I get about 1 spam a day sneaking in (usually with no actual advertising content), which is a 99% success rate, with only 2 false positives in the entire history of my email account.
I don't see why anyone would use Hotmail over Gmail, period.
They both have their benefits. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Are you a Wesley or a Scotty? Obi-wan Kenobi or Han Solo?
Let me put it another way. Think of CS and IT as Google and MySpace: Google writes a brilliant search algorithm, MySpace slaps together some ColdFusion. Google routinely pushes the envelope of web technology, making stuff like AJAX and web apps look good. Myspace poorly copies other online services.
No. There is no better way to handle it than making you do the work. Basically what I'm hearing is "but math is hard!" Math is not only a big part of CS, it is the foundation for CS, much in the way that physics is the foundation for engineering (but even moreso). Most of the math courses they make you take are most likely going to be directly applicable, as well. Discrete mathematics? Number theory? Linear algebra? Those are all used everyday in computer science. If you really want to do computer science, knowing how to prove things mathematically is going to help you as well.
Put it this way: why are you in college? Are you there to learn how to make web pages, apps, or video games? You may be wasting your time. Actually, let me put it another way: if you aren't in a CS program because you like learning about computers for the sake of learning about computers, you're in the wrong place. Get out of that degree and apply yourself.
Gandi is an excellent place to go. They aren't as cheap as GoDaddy, but they are a heck of a lot friendlier to deal with, and they allow you a lot of flexibility. They have a new XML API, and they support a lot of causes, including Debian.
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Not as strange as those weirdos who say "maths" and make bizarre puns based on words that rhyme.
I think the stupid point that everyone gets stuck up on is that this is a free speech issue, not a Free Speech 1st Amendment issue.
They make a good point: this is not about people silencing free speech. Posting the crack online is about civil disobedience against the completely unfair DMCA. It's not about copyrighting a number. It's about keeping people from legally using copyrighted material you've legally purchased. This seems to be an important point missed by most people. It's not a First Amendment issue, it's an anti-consumer issue.
Have you forgotten Jon Katz?
The argument everyone misses in the "analog vs digital" debate is this: we've been developing analog technology for about 120 years now. We've been doing digital music for what, 30? So much more time, money, and R&D have gone into developing analog recording and playback devices. They've been tweaked, revised, and perfected for maximum quality.
Right now, they sound better because they are made better. And now we're just going to throw away analog recording because something new has come along?
If it helps any, there are very few of us are not fucked up like this.
"I wanna travel around the world, and have a map with pins in it showing where I've been. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it stays up."
It's really hard to tell if HFCS has any real effect, so maybe it might not have an effect. But it would get rid of some of the crazy things we do to protect corn farmers, like tariffs etc.
Why don't we just switch to using cane sugar for our food and have the farmers sell all that excess corn for biofuel? It might make us a little less fat, too.
Generally, those who are heavy Linux users like it because the interface is fundamentally different. To cater to these people, you need something that acts like what they are comfortable with. And as the saying goes: "Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly."
This is hysterical. Not because it's stupid (it's not), but because of the sheer futility in trying to win over the "Linux Afcionado".
Question: "Are you aware of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing --"
Answer: "You mean Treacherous Computing, don't you? I spit on your pathetic proprietary software!"
And "Try to avoid the Microsoft versus Open Source software conversation and focus on specific workloads and IT pain points instead," by which of course they mean "give it up, you'll never convince these people; just beg to have them buy 'just one little server.' Make a frowny face when you ask."
"Rely on Get the Facts evidence --"
"Oh man, I read that bullshit on Slashdot. That TCO metric is a pile of crap --"
(salesman turns and runs out the door)
Awesome, offtopic AND flamebait.
How can you rebut something like that without simply discrediting the study? First, it's a single study done by a university, and most likely is done poorly or ignores obvious factors. It flies in the face of everything people know about learning. I've taught kids, and I've taught adults, and it helps both to work. I started reading at 3 because my parents read to me and had me practice at a young age. Maybe there's something wrong with the kind of homework we're giving kids, or the amount, but are they really suggesting that having kids practice the skills they learn in school is useless?
They're ruffled!!!
Gosh, off-topic, but how did that go?
Actually, big bands make bizarre requests like "23 brown M&Ms in the green room" to make sure that the venue follows the technical rider to their exact specifications — people can get hurt or electrocuted sometimes if the venue doesn't follow them. Van Halen did this, and when they found that the M&Ms weren't to spec, very often there was something seriously wrong the important stuff.
I'm annoyed by ESR as much as the next guy, but his complaints concerning CUPS were valid, and they did provide a pedagogical example as to how user interfaces in OSS can be improved. But, for some reason he seems more interested in End Of The World hyperbole than in providing the world with solutions. I don't remember CATB sounding anything like the stuff he writes now. It's been a while, but I remember CATB sounding more like Neal Stephenson's "In The Beginning...". For some reason, he keeps getting crazier and crazier, seemingly for the sake of promoting himself, when, in reality, if he did the opposite his opinion would be much more respected in the community.
Also make sure you save the mouse from the cat.
I think I've heard of this somewhere before...
Actually, this legacy user stopped going to the page itself because I could see my Inbox from my MSN Messenger account and I never got anything but spam - and after 15 days they promptly deleted all my messages. 10 years of archived emails, LOST. FOREVER.
Of course I didn't go back, because I was seriously getting about 4 times as much spam in my inbox as the "spam box" - and believe me, I did thousands of messages worth of "training" Hotmail. I just don't think they care about filtering spam. Now I use gmail, and I get about 1 spam a day sneaking in (usually with no actual advertising content), which is a 99% success rate, with only 2 false positives in the entire history of my email account.
I don't see why anyone would use Hotmail over Gmail, period.
Actually this legacy user stopped going to the page itself because I could see my Inbox from my MSN Messenger account and I never got anything but spam - and after 15 days they promptly deleted all my messages. 10 years of archived emails, LOST. FOREVER.
Of course I didn't go back, because I was seriously getting about 4 times as much spam in my inbox as the "spam box" - and believe me, I did thousands of messages worth of "training" Hotmail. I just don't think they care about filtering spam. Now I use gmail, and I get about 1 spam a day sneaking in (usually with no actual advertising content), which is a 99% success rate, with only 2 false positives in the entire history of my email account.
I don't see why anyone would use Hotmail over Gmail, period.
They both have their benefits. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Are you a Wesley or a Scotty? Obi-wan Kenobi or Han Solo?
Let me put it another way. Think of CS and IT as Google and MySpace: Google writes a brilliant search algorithm, MySpace slaps together some ColdFusion. Google routinely pushes the envelope of web technology, making stuff like AJAX and web apps look good. Myspace poorly copies other online services.
They both make billions of dollars.
oops, that should be "computing"
No. There is no better way to handle it than making you do the work. Basically what I'm hearing is "but math is hard!" Math is not only a big part of CS, it is the foundation for CS, much in the way that physics is the foundation for engineering (but even moreso). Most of the math courses they make you take are most likely going to be directly applicable, as well. Discrete mathematics? Number theory? Linear algebra? Those are all used everyday in computer science. If you really want to do computer science, knowing how to prove things mathematically is going to help you as well.
Put it this way: why are you in college? Are you there to learn how to make web pages, apps, or video games? You may be wasting your time. Actually, let me put it another way: if you aren't in a CS program because you like learning about computers for the sake of learning about computers, you're in the wrong place. Get out of that degree and apply yourself.
Gandi is an excellent place to go. They aren't as cheap as GoDaddy, but they are a heck of a lot friendlier to deal with, and they allow you a lot of flexibility. They have a new XML API, and they support a lot of causes, including Debian.