Yeah , because you're really going to learn newtons laws or how to solve quadratic equations from playing super mario.
If you want to learn Newton's Laws, you'll need a game with a better physics engine:-)
But quadratic equations are a good example of what's wrong with school learning. You spend the better part a year in algebra class factoring equations of the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0, and then completing the square, and then finally at the end of the year they tell you that this has all been busywork and the answer is -b +/- sqrt(b^2-4ac)/2a. I spent some time writing a program to do the factoring busywork for me, and fortunately had an algebra teacher who didn't object. Lots more time for video games (Ultima IV, I think) that way. Seriously, you could teach everything from factoring to completing the square to the quadratic equation (including its derivation) to a reasonably bright set of students in a couple of weeks or less, save months of factoring busywork, let them play video games the rest of the time, and still come out on top educationally.
I don't know. Lower your grades could affect which school you get into (if you get into one at all), which ultimately could decide your salary for the rest of your life.
Yeah, having to do undergraduate work at a stateschool really limits your salary.
Yeah, I know those two are exceptional, but depending on the field, your high school grades can affect your salary from "a good deal" to "almost not at all" -- and more fields are likely "almost not at all". How many fields are there where the school you went to as an undergraduate is what matters? Sure, in business a prestigious MBA can matter, but that's a master's degree.
So basically after controlling for everything, pathological status is a predictor of poor school performance. This should surprise no one, as people with mental problems tend to do worse in school.
It's not really a predictor, because it's circular. One of the criteria for pathological status is interference with school performance.
I think I'll join the kick in nads faction - what would have been really cool is if the Conficker author had used his talent for something constructive, not destructive.
Evil likely pays better. Though the retirement plan sucks.
Well I wish computer programming was more accessible to me. What can you do? We live in a complex world. A lot of things require a lot of study to become "accessible", and each of us has only one lifetime. The law, like every other field of study, has its own language, conventions, methods, and processes. It takes time to learn them.
Yeah, but you can't be sent to pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison for an illegal expression in C, whereas you can for violating the law... which you can now do by writing certain computer programs.
Has the FSF actually said word one about the record companies? I know Stallman wrote "The Right to Read" about books, but I don't recall anything from Stallman or FSF about the record companies. Perhaps the RIAA is getting a bit paranoid.
Just like the other type of resources we can give breaks for per unit the more you purchase. So 1-20 gig is 50 cents a gig. 20-40 is 30 cents and so on.
The economics of it work the other way. Most of the cost is fixed; there's little (though not zero) marginal cost for those first few gigs. When users start pulling enough that the capacity of the network is strained, THEN you start getting big costs. And of course time matters -- the user pulling 10GB distributed over the entire month is adding a lot less to the cost of the system than the user who pulls those 10GB all at 6:30pm one Friday, for example.
So as a matter of reflecting the underlying costs, usage-based plans don't make sense unless they are much more complex than simple metered billing. As a matter of simply discouraging use of the network, metered billing makes perfect sense -- and that's what TW wants. They want most to pay the minimum rate AND not use the network much. No additional capital costs for that, and big profit from those few who DO continue to use heavily (because there won't be enough of them to trigger a need to upgrade).
Copper pipes actually do lose capacity in normal use, at least with hard water. So I'd replace those cables if you've been running hard bits through them.
Ever go on a beach and complain how hot the sand was and it was burning your feet? Yea that's cause we are sissies compared to people of 100, 200, 300, 5000 years ago.
That's because we don't go out and walk on hot sand and similar surfaces every day, thus building up calluses on our feet.
Yet, there are many people (many of whom populate the talk show circuit) who seem to not follow this "selection by wallet size". I am amazed by the dregs of society who hook up, have kids, and move on.
They're a reserve, in case this new-fangled "civilization" thing doesn't work out.
It's a bunch of private parties (the Authors Guild) deciding, after having taken a company (Google) to court, to settle their differences without having the court impose something.
If the settlement only covered Author's Guild authors, that would be true. It doesn't. It covers ALL copyright holders. A sues B and the settlement extinguishes C,D, and Es claims (past, present or future) as well.
While it's true that it's worse for the RIAA labels if someone downloads an indie song that they like rather than illicitly downloading an RIAA song or buying an RIAA song, it's still worse for the labels for someone to illicitly download an RIAA song rather than buy it. So they will continue to fight TPB, even if it fails to help indie labels. Conversely, from the point of view of someone who wants to see RIAA labels hurt, it's better if someone illicitly downloads an RIAA song rather than purchases an RIAA song. Either way, I don't see how file sharing hurts the non-RIAA publishers. Either the RIAA music dominates the illicit channels as completely as the legal ones (in which case the indies are neither hurt nor helped by the illicit channels, but the RIAA labels are slightly hurt), or they do not (win for the indies).
The only case I can see where the existence of the illicit channels could hurt the indies is if they were trying to compete on price with the RIAA labels in the legal channels. I don't think that's the case.
Yeah, like if that hole had let you somehow win the jackpot at the progressive slots, you wouldn't have been seriously tempted to take the money and destroy the wireless card with the incriminating MAC address...
That was back when pollution meant stuff like raw sewage. Nowadays, pollution means one of the inevitable results of complete burning of carbon-containing materials. Which, since there ain't no replacement for burning of carbon-containing materials (nukes ain't happening and the rest ain't sufficient), means pollution equals energy use. So in the guise of "stopping pollution", the EPA can ration energy. Cool, eh?
No, it will be the deathblow when people start to openly defy copyright, instead of doing the equivalent today what used to be sneaking into the whites only area back then for a black person. We need people to oppose copyright the way Rosa Parks sat on the bus.
Open defiance of copyright simply leads to anonymous bankruptcy, or if you try hard enough, perhaps an anonymous jail cell. The maximum extent of the publicity gained will be a story on Slashdot. Few will hear about it, and fewer will give a shit. Civil disobedience will not work for copyright.
Whether or not one agrees with the rights that copyright holders are granted today it is imperative that one realizes the idiocy of killing the Internet to enforce those rules.
The Internet -- a vast entity based largely on copying data without regard to its content -- is not compatible with copyright as we know it today.
It's funny how different the opinions of the artists are from the selfish leeches who pirate their works. Again, these are the artists you pirates have, for years, claimed to be fighting for (don't ask me how pirating their work accomplishes that).
TO me this is great news . I hope the internet will be more controlled . I would love to be able to let my kids surf the internet without having to worry about what they'll find.
why do you think google should be untouchable?
"Freedom" is a concept open to much debate, which I won't engage in with you.
Align yourself with these "artists" and you've aligned yourself with anti-freedom people who would censor the Internet and shut down Google.
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker held that "a ratio of no more than one-to-one between compensatory and punitive damages is generally appropriate in maritime cases". In other words, punitive damages cannot exceed compensatory damages.
Not applicable, even considering that this isn't maritime law. The obnoxious statutory damages aren't intended as punitive, they are intended as compensatory. (They aren't, but that's another matter)
The distance between London and Paris is about the same as that between New York City and Washingon, D.C. You know how people who aren't on expense accounts get between NYC and Washington, D.C.? They drive. Compare a distances like those between New York and Chicago (720 miles) if you want a rail-to-plane comparison.
But mostly it doesn't. It's not really "regional transport for Southeast PA", it's commute-in-and-out-of-Philadelphia-county...where there are few jobs worth having.
It also only works if you're within walking distance of a station, or commute at 6am. Because of parking restrictions at the stations, drive-train-walk from the suburbs to Philadelphia works only for a few. The typical three-seat ride (bus-train-bus) is a terrible experience, and takes a long time. And of course suburb to suburb commuting doesn't work unless you're on the same "spoke"; while it's theoretically possible to commute from where I live to where I work (both basically on US 422), the trip would take several hours each way, all by bus.
Which I assure you, absolutely none of the players in this particular game is.
The US Constitution reserves the power to tax interstate commerce to the Federal Government. The states tried to ignore that and collect from out-of-state vendors, and got slapped down by the Supreme Court. Then they enacted this fun little item called a "use tax", which is supposedly not a tax on interstate sales but a tax on the "use" of an item within a state. Oddly enough, however, it just happens to be the same rate as the sales tax, and one can deduct from it any state sales tax paid. This is a blatantly unconstitutional dodge, but no one affected has the power to do anything about it. Balancing that is the fact that on most items the tax is difficult to enforce. Simultaneously, the state legislatures have been trying to get Congress to grant them the power to tax. Congress, however, not seeing anything in it for them (and getting a lot of lobbying from the other side) has mostly not been sympathetic. Nobody involved cares a whit about fairness or the nation as a whole, and doing so yourself is playing a sucker's game.
MS has performed a TREMENDOUS service to MANY of those who like to use computers. Bill Gates' quest to dominate has much helped the x86 chipset to become a standard
That's not a service. We're stuck with the dancing bear of architectures because it may not dance well, but it dances to the Microsoft tune.
So,they think that how many years after the release of OSX they finally got a windows that might be able to compete?
Microsoft just can't help it. They know, deep down inside, that Apple is better. If they squint and rationalize and hem and haw and run old versions, they can convince themselves that they really are better than Linux, but they just can't do that with the Mac (or the iPod, for that matter -- consider that little film they made about "if Microsoft made the iPod packaging). So they're reduced to statements which end up sounding like "we're good enough this time, really", and "those bastards may be better, but they cost a bit more".
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If you want to learn Newton's Laws, you'll need a game with a better physics engine :-)
But quadratic equations are a good example of what's wrong with school learning. You spend the better part a year in algebra class factoring equations of the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0, and then completing the square, and then finally at the end of the year they tell you that this has all been busywork and the answer is -b +/- sqrt(b^2-4ac)/2a. I spent some time writing a program to do the factoring busywork for me, and fortunately had an algebra teacher who didn't object. Lots more time for video games (Ultima IV, I think) that way. Seriously, you could teach everything from factoring to completing the square to the quadratic equation (including its derivation) to a reasonably bright set of students in a couple of weeks or less, save months of factoring busywork, let them play video games the rest of the time, and still come out on top educationally.
Yeah, having to do undergraduate work at a state school really limits your salary.
Yeah, I know those two are exceptional, but depending on the field, your high school grades can affect your salary from "a good deal" to "almost not at all" -- and more fields are likely "almost not at all". How many fields are there where the school you went to as an undergraduate is what matters? Sure, in business a prestigious MBA can matter, but that's a master's degree.
It's not really a predictor, because it's circular. One of the criteria for pathological status is interference with school performance.
Evil likely pays better. Though the retirement plan sucks.
Yeah, but you can't be sent to pound-me-in-the-ass Federal Prison for an illegal expression in C, whereas you can for violating the law... which you can now do by writing certain computer programs.
Has the FSF actually said word one about the record companies? I know Stallman wrote "The Right to Read" about books, but I don't recall anything from Stallman or FSF about the record companies. Perhaps the RIAA is getting a bit paranoid.
The economics of it work the other way. Most of the cost is fixed; there's little (though not zero) marginal cost for those first few gigs. When users start pulling enough that the capacity of the network is strained, THEN you start getting big costs. And of course time matters -- the user pulling 10GB distributed over the entire month is adding a lot less to the cost of the system than the user who pulls those 10GB all at 6:30pm one Friday, for example.
So as a matter of reflecting the underlying costs, usage-based plans don't make sense unless they are much more complex than simple metered billing. As a matter of simply discouraging use of the network, metered billing makes perfect sense -- and that's what TW wants. They want most to pay the minimum rate AND not use the network much. No additional capital costs for that, and big profit from those few who DO continue to use heavily (because there won't be enough of them to trigger a need to upgrade).
Copper pipes actually do lose capacity in normal use, at least with hard water. So I'd replace those cables if you've been running hard bits through them.
That's because we don't go out and walk on hot sand and similar surfaces every day, thus building up calluses on our feet.
They're a reserve, in case this new-fangled "civilization" thing doesn't work out.
If the settlement only covered Author's Guild authors, that would be true. It doesn't. It covers ALL copyright holders. A sues B and the settlement extinguishes C,D, and Es claims (past, present or future) as well.
While it's true that it's worse for the RIAA labels if someone downloads an indie song that they like rather than illicitly downloading an RIAA song or buying an RIAA song, it's still worse for the labels for someone to illicitly download an RIAA song rather than buy it. So they will continue to fight TPB, even if it fails to help indie labels. Conversely, from the point of view of someone who wants to see RIAA labels hurt, it's better if someone illicitly downloads an RIAA song rather than purchases an RIAA song. Either way, I don't see how file sharing hurts the non-RIAA publishers. Either the RIAA music dominates the illicit channels as completely as the legal ones (in which case the indies are neither hurt nor helped by the illicit channels, but the RIAA labels are slightly hurt), or they do not (win for the indies).
The only case I can see where the existence of the illicit channels could hurt the indies is if they were trying to compete on price with the RIAA labels in the legal channels. I don't think that's the case.
Yeah, like if that hole had let you somehow win the jackpot at the progressive slots, you wouldn't have been seriously tempted to take the money and destroy the wireless card with the incriminating MAC address...
That was back when pollution meant stuff like raw sewage. Nowadays, pollution means one of the inevitable results of complete burning of carbon-containing materials. Which, since there ain't no replacement for burning of carbon-containing materials (nukes ain't happening and the rest ain't sufficient), means pollution equals energy use. So in the guise of "stopping pollution", the EPA can ration energy. Cool, eh?
Open defiance of copyright simply leads to anonymous bankruptcy, or if you try hard enough, perhaps an anonymous jail cell. The maximum extent of the publicity gained will be a story on Slashdot. Few will hear about it, and fewer will give a shit. Civil disobedience will not work for copyright.
The Internet -- a vast entity based largely on copying data without regard to its content -- is not compatible with copyright as we know it today.
Align yourself with these "artists" and you've aligned yourself with anti-freedom people who would censor the Internet and shut down Google.
Not applicable, even considering that this isn't maritime law. The obnoxious statutory damages aren't intended as punitive, they are intended as compensatory. (They aren't, but that's another matter)
The distance between London and Paris is about the same as that between New York City and Washingon, D.C. You know how people who aren't on expense accounts get between NYC and Washington, D.C.? They drive. Compare a distances like those between New York and Chicago (720 miles) if you want a rail-to-plane comparison.
It also only works if you're within walking distance of a station, or commute at 6am. Because of parking restrictions at the stations, drive-train-walk from the suburbs to Philadelphia works only for a few. The typical three-seat ride (bus-train-bus) is a terrible experience, and takes a long time. And of course suburb to suburb commuting doesn't work unless you're on the same "spoke"; while it's theoretically possible to commute from where I live to where I work (both basically on US 422), the trip would take several hours each way, all by bus.
There's a word for using this sort of "deterrent". That word is "terrorism".
Which I assure you, absolutely none of the players in this particular game is.
The US Constitution reserves the power to tax interstate commerce to the Federal Government. The states tried to ignore that and collect from out-of-state vendors, and got slapped down by the Supreme Court. Then they enacted this fun little item called a "use tax", which is supposedly not a tax on interstate sales but a tax on the "use" of an item within a state. Oddly enough, however, it just happens to be the same rate as the sales tax, and one can deduct from it any state sales tax paid. This is a blatantly unconstitutional dodge, but no one affected has the power to do anything about it. Balancing that is the fact that on most items the tax is difficult to enforce. Simultaneously, the state legislatures have been trying to get Congress to grant them the power to tax. Congress, however, not seeing anything in it for them (and getting a lot of lobbying from the other side) has mostly not been sympathetic. Nobody involved cares a whit about fairness or the nation as a whole, and doing so yourself is playing a sucker's game.
I've been to Aalborg in the "summer" and I beg to differ!
That's not a service. We're stuck with the dancing bear of architectures because it may not dance well, but it dances to the Microsoft tune.
Microsoft just can't help it. They know, deep down inside, that Apple is better. If they squint and rationalize and hem and haw and run old versions, they can convince themselves that they really are better than Linux, but they just can't do that with the Mac (or the iPod, for that matter -- consider that little film they made about "if Microsoft made the iPod packaging). So they're reduced to statements which end up sounding like "we're good enough this time, really", and "those bastards may be better, but they cost a bit more".