As a student seven years ago, Solaris cost me $10 and Red Hat cost me $30. Perhaps, Solaris running on an x86 isn't real enough for you, but it worked for me.
San Jose State (in California) is not an accredited engineering school, would this mean that their diploma is violating the law?
What about "train engineers"? Are they exempt from this law?
"Are you just trolling? I'll bet you're just trolling, and I'll assume it until you come up with some real argument to back your position. "
For what it's worth, my intention was not to provoke, my intent was to shed some light on a contrary point of view (which I happen to share) without putting in hours of research to back it up. And if you consider that behavior to be one of a troll, then so be it, label me as a troll.
Personally, I have become overly dependent on the calculator, this dependence is not something I'm proud of. My high school education was done through the French educational system and since the French government was very quick to give out free calculators and free graphic calculators to its youngens, I experienced the effects of this technology first-hand. This technology didn't make my classmates and myself smarter, it made us lazier. Obviously, a technology doesn't make you lazier without your permission, but that's besides the point. In my experience, this technology doesn't help, it should stay out of the classroom. Feel free to ignore my opinion, I am not prepared to do the necessary research to convince you.
Tuition rates for 2002-2003 school year.
Tuition for the first child in the family: $4900
Tuition for the second child in the family: $3675
Tuition for the third and all other children in the family: $2450
$4,900 in Framingham, MA 01701, is that reasonable? I don't have kids yet, but I'm just wondering.
Good for you and your dad. Having a calculator makes kids dumber anyway. And no, I'm not a troll, I'm just a foreign-educated guy who is persuaded calculators are detrimental to high school education.
Man, I hate when people claim that the reason they failed at something is due to outside circumstances. Dude, you got a C because you didn't try hard enough.
This try-harder I-can-do-anything attitude is a myth. It's partly true and it's the right attitude to have, but again, it's not completely accurate. Your environment will affect you to some extent. As a kid, if you have a clueless teacher and a single parent with no education, or a clueless teacher with a set of parents with one or two Masters under their belt, it's going to affect your learning abilities and it's going to affect your motivation. I wish I could point to some measurable quantifiable causal relationships between all the different factors, but I'm afraid it's not that simple.
Please do not misuse the word "engineering". [...] To be called an "engineer" you must graduate from a school authorized to bestow the particular engineering degree.
Authorized by whom? Do you realize that a school does not even need to be accredited to bestow an engineering degree? I've met so many engineers who didn't even know basic math, it's frightening.
Right now, piracy is not economically viable for terrorists. Terrorists don't have ready access to consumer technology, they don't have easy access to our lucrative markets, and the risk-to-reward ratio means that they would be competing with yuppie twelve year olds from all over the World.
In other words,
PROHIBITION => GREATER RISK => GREATER PROFIT => TERRORISM
"...it should be neither surprising nor controversial that illegal activity feeds on itself to society's detriment."
It should be neither surprising nor controversial that legal activity also feeds itself to society's detriment. After all, if you have any significant number of followers, the only thing you need to do to raise money, is to give your followers menial jobs.
How can you put an example in the man page? Can you just type?
edit man
Please don't take my comment as facetious. With Macromedia, I can now contribute to the documentation at the click of the button. With Squeak, I can contribute to the source code at the click of the button. But when it comes to Linux documentation, I don't have a fucking clue where to to go, or what to do, to edit a man page. And even if I did know where to go, I'm pretty sure my changes wouldn't show up on my computer until I manually redownloaded and reinstalled the latest batch of man pages.
On the topic of Slashdot duplication, I recommend a wiki-like solution. Just think of writing articles as programming, when you refactor your code, you're forced to edit it manually (there is no way around this). Sometimes you're even forced to change the structure of the program you're writing so it doesn't become a kludge full of duplicates. Right? In a way, Slashdot doesn't allow you to change its structure (not too much anyway). Personally, I would like to see Slashdot experiment with a small (space-limited) wiki section near the top of every news story. Then, readers and editors alike, could simply fold back and summarize the knowledge gained in the hundreds of articles gained below. Then should this experiment prove successful -- perhaps we could even consider using a similar kind of solution for tackling the bigger problem of duplicate _news_headlines_.
On the topic of email spam, please take a look at my signature. It's a good practical elegant partial solution to the problem. And it's free (it's actually non-profit volunteer effort).
Another way is to watch technical newsgroups and mailing lists for code samples and programming solutions. After a while, you get a sense of who's on the ball, and who is not.
To the original poster, I wonder how you solicited your original pool of resumes in the first place. Did you advertise, post a notice on your web site, or did you seek them out by going fishing at their communities of practice?
"This looks to me like just another scam, similar to things like handwriting analysis..."
I agree, handwriting analysis is a scam, but if you want to work on your handwriting, I recommend a book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. This book will teach you how to emulate any handwriting in the world. I am not kidding. I am not recommending this book to pass those stupid tests either. This is just a side-topic I wanted to share.
(BTW: I'm not making those up. I have talked to at least 3 people from each one of the examples I gave.)
When giving out instructions, one must be very careful not to do the thinking of the person sitting at the workstation. For example, if my mom asks me why her computer is so slow. I tell her one possible reason is that her hard disk is dirty and disorganized and needs to be defragmented. When she demands that I perform the defragmentation for her. I explain that there is an application in her computer that will defragment her computer. I further explain that it's a very easy application to use and that she will have to find the application in her computer without my help.
At this point, she usually frowns at me, looks at her desktop, and complains that she doesn't know where it is. Me, I usually respond that I don't know either and I ask her where such an application would be located. Eventually, she makes a couple of wrong guesses. I respond an encouraging "may be" and then eventually she ends up finding what she's looking for.
In any case, I have to go bowling now, but you get the idea. With a little bit of patience, you let the people you support do their own thinking and you let them make their own mistakes, and then eventually they'll learn. I know you may not have that luxury at your workplace, but I thought I would throw in my two cents anyway.
"They don't have a low savings rate - for two generations now, they've had one of the highest rates in the world. "
Ten years ago, Japanese banks were paying Japanese people an interest rate of 20% per year for an average savings account. I didn't comprehend this at the time. Few american people believed me when I told them about this, but with this kind of interest rate, it would be absolutely crazy not to save. And it would be even crazier still to compare the savings rate of Japanese people with the rest of the world under such abnormal conditions.
A similar thing happened to me last week. When I met my mom, she handed me a BusinessWeek article (I think it was a BusinessWeek article, but I'm not positive), and she started raving about Linux and said that I needed to get into this (little did she know, that the operating system that I set up for her and that she was already using everyday for over a year was already a Linux-based system).
Actually, it might just be easier still to go to http://www.amazon.com and write a glowing review for either Caldera's linux books/software or SCO's books.
"Why not have everyone send them letters of complaint, requesting a response. Do this repeatedly...."
It's not that I'm lazy and it's not that I don't trust the company to reply to my complaint, but I think it would be easier to saturate their toll-free sales phone line, or their web form, instead.
Incidently, here is the Canopy Group's contact information, but please be aware 801 is not a toll-free number, it's a Utah area code.
The Canopy Group
333 South 520 West
Suite 300
Lindon, UT 84042
phone: 801.229.2223 (not a free toll-free number)
fax: 801.229.2458
e-mail: info@canopy.com http://www.canopy.com/aboutus/contact.htm
Personally, I find the Canopy web site purposefully misleading. Canopy is only a minority shareholder of TrollTech and yet from the web site, one could easily make the assumption that they own the entire company.
Perhaps TrollTech (and the other portfolio companies) can demand that Canopy take off their logos from its web page. If TrollTech can't legally require this of Canopy, then perhaps I can start posting Microsoft's logo on my web site and list it as one of my portfolio companies (yes, I do own a small number of its shares).
How do you define a pirate? What if a downloader is simply streaming a batch of files to the speakers, emulating a radio? Would you call that a pirate?
You mean like a pirate radio station? (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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As a student seven years ago, Solaris cost me $10 and Red Hat cost me $30. Perhaps, Solaris running on an x86 isn't real enough for you, but it worked for me.
San Jose State (in California) is not an accredited engineering school, would this mean that their diploma is violating the law? What about "train engineers"? Are they exempt from this law?
It's 9:15 AM, don't you have work to do and patents to weed out instead of posting on Slashdot?
Thank god he didn't die, or we would never have been blessed with this great ad-delivery innovation.
For what it's worth, my intention was not to provoke, my intent was to shed some light on a contrary point of view (which I happen to share) without putting in hours of research to back it up. And if you consider that behavior to be one of a troll, then so be it, label me as a troll.
Personally, I have become overly dependent on the calculator, this dependence is not something I'm proud of. My high school education was done through the French educational system and since the French government was very quick to give out free calculators and free graphic calculators to its youngens, I experienced the effects of this technology first-hand. This technology didn't make my classmates and myself smarter, it made us lazier. Obviously, a technology doesn't make you lazier without your permission, but that's besides the point. In my experience, this technology doesn't help, it should stay out of the classroom. Feel free to ignore my opinion, I am not prepared to do the necessary research to convince you.
...boycott them because it will save you money.
http://www.bestbookbuys.com/ (Book Price Comparaison Bot)
Tuition for the first child in the family: $4900
Tuition for the second child in the family: $3675
Tuition for the third and all other children in the family: $2450
$4,900 in Framingham, MA 01701, is that reasonable? I don't have kids yet, but I'm just wondering.
Good for you and your dad. Having a calculator makes kids dumber anyway. And no, I'm not a troll, I'm just a foreign-educated guy who is persuaded calculators are detrimental to high school education.
This try-harder I-can-do-anything attitude is a myth. It's partly true and it's the right attitude to have, but again, it's not completely accurate. Your environment will affect you to some extent. As a kid, if you have a clueless teacher and a single parent with no education, or a clueless teacher with a set of parents with one or two Masters under their belt, it's going to affect your learning abilities and it's going to affect your motivation. I wish I could point to some measurable quantifiable causal relationships between all the different factors, but I'm afraid it's not that simple.
Authorized by whom? Do you realize that a school does not even need to be accredited to bestow an engineering degree? I've met so many engineers who didn't even know basic math, it's frightening.
Right now, piracy is not economically viable for terrorists. Terrorists don't have ready access to consumer technology, they don't have easy access to our lucrative markets, and the risk-to-reward ratio means that they would be competing with yuppie twelve year olds from all over the World.
In other words,
PROHIBITION => GREATER RISK => GREATER PROFIT => TERRORISM
Or, may be I'm just cynical.
It should be neither surprising nor controversial that legal activity also feeds itself to society's detriment. After all, if you have any significant number of followers, the only thing you need to do to raise money, is to give your followers menial jobs.
edit man
Please don't take my comment as facetious. With Macromedia, I can now contribute to the documentation at the click of the button. With Squeak, I can contribute to the source code at the click of the button. But when it comes to Linux documentation, I don't have a fucking clue where to to go, or what to do, to edit a man page. And even if I did know where to go, I'm pretty sure my changes wouldn't show up on my computer until I manually redownloaded and reinstalled the latest batch of man pages.
On the topic of email spam, please take a look at my signature. It's a good practical elegant partial solution to the problem. And it's free (it's actually non-profit volunteer effort).
To the original poster, I wonder how you solicited your original pool of resumes in the first place. Did you advertise, post a notice on your web site, or did you seek them out by going fishing at their communities of practice?
I agree, handwriting analysis is a scam, but if you want to work on your handwriting, I recommend a book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. This book will teach you how to emulate any handwriting in the world. I am not kidding. I am not recommending this book to pass those stupid tests either. This is just a side-topic I wanted to share.
When giving out instructions, one must be very careful not to do the thinking of the person sitting at the workstation. For example, if my mom asks me why her computer is so slow. I tell her one possible reason is that her hard disk is dirty and disorganized and needs to be defragmented. When she demands that I perform the defragmentation for her. I explain that there is an application in her computer that will defragment her computer. I further explain that it's a very easy application to use and that she will have to find the application in her computer without my help. At this point, she usually frowns at me, looks at her desktop, and complains that she doesn't know where it is. Me, I usually respond that I don't know either and I ask her where such an application would be located. Eventually, she makes a couple of wrong guesses. I respond an encouraging "may be" and then eventually she ends up finding what she's looking for.
In any case, I have to go bowling now, but you get the idea. With a little bit of patience, you let the people you support do their own thinking and you let them make their own mistakes, and then eventually they'll learn. I know you may not have that luxury at your workplace, but I thought I would throw in my two cents anyway.
Ten years ago, Japanese banks were paying Japanese people an interest rate of 20% per year for an average savings account. I didn't comprehend this at the time. Few american people believed me when I told them about this, but with this kind of interest rate, it would be absolutely crazy not to save. And it would be even crazier still to compare the savings rate of Japanese people with the rest of the world under such abnormal conditions.
A similar thing happened to me last week. When I met my mom, she handed me a BusinessWeek article (I think it was a BusinessWeek article, but I'm not positive), and she started raving about Linux and said that I needed to get into this (little did she know, that the operating system that I set up for her and that she was already using everyday for over a year was already a Linux-based system).
The internet exceeded all my expectations.
Actually, it might just be easier still to go to http://www.amazon.com and write a glowing review for either Caldera's linux books/software or SCO's books.
It's not that I'm lazy and it's not that I don't trust the company to reply to my complaint, but I think it would be easier to saturate their toll-free sales phone line, or their web form, instead.
Caldera Product and Sales Inquiries
1-888-GO-LINUX
1-888-465-4689
http://www.caldera.com/company/feedback/
Incidently, here is the Canopy Group's contact information, but please be aware 801 is not a toll-free number, it's a Utah area code.
The Canopy Group
333 South 520 West
Suite 300
Lindon, UT 84042
phone: 801.229.2223 (not a free toll-free number)
fax: 801.229.2458
e-mail: info@canopy.com
http://www.canopy.com/aboutus/contact.htm
Perhaps TrollTech (and the other portfolio companies) can demand that Canopy take off their logos from its web page. If TrollTech can't legally require this of Canopy, then perhaps I can start posting Microsoft's logo on my web site and list it as one of my portfolio companies (yes, I do own a small number of its shares).
You mean like a pirate radio station? (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)