It's the first serious proof I've ever seen that the institution is actually doing something with all that tuition and grant money. Plus it provides a more solid basis for choosing a school than campus tours and the quality of the football team.
I agree. In the case of MIT, I bet most people attend that school because of their research reputation. I did the same for the school I went to, I selected it based on its research reputation, and as an undergrad (e.g. second class citizen); that's probably the biggest mistake I could have made.
High schoolers; don't make the same mistake I've made. Select your University based on the popularity its football team and the quality of its cheerleaders squad. In hindsight, even if you're not interested in football; this rationale makes a lot of sense.
Education is overrated, since anyone with a decent IQ and a large reference library (say.. the Internet) can work out how to do things that you once needed a degree to do.
Online education is overrated. A large electronic reference library is not going to do squat for you. By themselves, distance learning and e-learning are worthless.
That may be perfectly accurate in terms of the law, but in practice this law doesn't seem to be applied. For example, just take a look at Fuckedcompany, Pud publishes an archive of companies internal memos and when the lawyers send him a "cease and desist" letter, he publishes those as well. http://www.fuckedcompany.com/
An then, there is The Smoking Gun. While they don't seem to publish random letters, they do publish embarassing letter or documents that have been sent to a governmental agency. So, perhaps he could publish the document recording the complaint the guy sent to the FBI. That would be even better.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
The Taiwanese do disregard intellectual property, but they do not want be part of Mainland China; your statement is completely baseless.
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/pubs/ib46.html"The election results mirrored poll after poll in recent years, which have shown that a majority of Taiwanese, especially in the younger generation, consider Taiwan and not China to be their homeland. Large blocs have opted either for the ambiguous status quo of separation from the mainland or have favored clear-cut independence at some undefined time. Only small numbers say they desire to see Taiwan become part of China while it remains in autocratic communist hands. "
I have to agree with your sentiments about not trying to scam a scammer but I don't think you should be showing them that you're afraid of them. Who knows. They could be watching us right now?
Scammers are rational business people, they act out of their economic self-interests. They wouldn't hurt me or you unless there was a logical economic benefit. On a side note, I was almost attacked once in Budapest for trying to explain to the crowd that they were being scammed. When I started explaining things, most people in the crowd started turning on me. It turns out most of them were part of the scam too.
At school (before I graduated so long ago) we would "fork bomb" the compute servers [ while(1) do { fork(); } ] in an attempt to extend deadlines or simply be assholes:)
That explains why some professors wouldn't give us any extensions when the labs' servers were down.
I've been following a similar kind of no sugar/lo carb/ high protein diet for three months now. I've lost 34 pounds (by the way, I am currently a 200 pound, 6 foot 1, 27 years old Male). My overall cholesterol has gone down to 188 (normal levels) and my good cholesterol has gone up to 32 (it should be higher I believe). I can't find my previous results right now, but overall this diet has greatly improved my chances of not getting heart disease. Aside from that, I've also been a lot more energetic. My energy levels are up consistently from the time I wake to the time I go to sleep. Before, even before I became overweight, I needed a bagel and a coffee to give me a kick start in the morning and my energy would go back down after just an hour or two.
The diet I tried is called
The Fat Flush Plan by Ann Louise Gittleman. It's an horrible title for a book, but it's worth checking out. At the time it was the most highly reader-rated diet book on Amazon.
I have a cell-phone with my phone book, a PDA with my calendar info and my address book. I have my home desktop bookmarks, my work desktop bookmarks, my laptop bookmarks, my PDA bookmarks, etc.
Don't you want to keep your phone book, your calendar info, and your address book *private*? It would be useful if I could transfer my things from one medium to another, but that's about it. I don't really want to have people put themselves on my calendar without my permission. Are you really sure you're talking from the perspective of a consumer?
As funny as this is, it's actually true. McDonalds and most other fast food chains offer bundled foot at a lower cost than if each food item were purchased separately.
Under fast-food logic...
I see nothing wrong with "Fast Food logic". The big mac is not the only thing we're paying for. We're paying for the time their employee is taking to take our order and we're paying for the space we want to take when we sit down.
ka-BOOOOM!! There's goes the group's credibility (if they ever had any). First of all,.NET is NOT an alternative to Sun's JVM..NET is an application environment, period. It's a different product.
There goes *your* credibility. Conceptually, the Java Virtual Machine and the.Net Virtual Machine are identical. The only difference is marketing. Microsoft wasn't about to market itself as a Java-wannabe, so it branded its Virtual Machine as something new.
Except for marketing, there is nothing preventing Microsoft from making.Net cross-platform compatible, and at some point in the future, I believe everyone will discover that.Net is indeed cross-platform compatible (if not truly cross-platform compatible, at least they will be as cross-platform compatible as the Java platform is ever going to be)
Even the MS cross-language capability, that's marketing. The Java platform already has multiple languages running on it. For instance, ColfusionMX runs on J2EE. Coldfusion is a syntactic skin that runs on top of Java, that's it. The true underlying language of the CFMX framework is Java. As to C#, ASP.NET, and VB.NET; they are simply skins that are running on top of the MS Intermediate Language. In most cases, you can switch language skins on a.Net program by doing a "search and replace" and the code will still compile.
So, in conclusion, both frameworks are basicely the same. They were both inspired by the same SmallTalk Virtual Machine. One is slightly more up-to-date perhaps, but the other one had a couple of years of headstart. That's really the only difference.
He more likely arranged it long ago, when his future value to the company outweighed the potential value of his contributions.
This does seem unusual (and not just for Microsoft). He had to have hammered this out long before his creations spawned a cash-cow like Word.
He came from Xerox Lab where he had been one their Star employees for ten years and he started with Microsoft as their *fourth* employee. You bet he had leverage. I'm surprised he didn't ask to be CEO.
He probably threathened to reveal some rather embarassing details about how Microsoft has abused it's market power if they didn't give it to him.
Or he negotiated his contract before he was hired by Microsoft. By the time he was hired by Microsoft, he was already a Star at Xerox PARC, so he had the leverage.
On a side note, I read an excellent book on negotiation recently. It's called "Start with No" by Jim Camp. Its first edition just came out on July 2002 and I found it much better than the "Getting to Yes" negotiation book.
IBM has done a lot of experimentation on developemnt systems along these lines.
I believe SmallTalk-71 already had some of those drag-and-drop programming capabilities and Xerox PARC released SmallTalk-80 to IBM sometimes in the 70s.
Yes of course companies would have networked their computers without government help. But it would have taken many more years to have the kind of open standards that have made the web so successful because it is not in the interests of private companies to create standards from which they do not financially profit.
Perhaps, but I am not so sure. Private companies are not as stupid as everyone make them seem to be. If Microsoft had not supported open standards right from the beginning, it would have died right away. And even now, if Microsoft made any drastic move away from open standards such as xml, html, text, csv, and etc I really doubt it could survive.
internet (web), yes HTML no, subset of SGML a non government research product MP3, nope fraunhoffer AG non-government contract JPG, nope Joint Motion Picture Expert Group an industry trade group MPEG, see above
And even for the web. Do you really think that private citizens/companies would not have networked their computers without the help of the government?
The Better Homes and Gardens cook book is not bad either. All the techniques are completely described (even boiling an egg or selecting whatever kind of vegetable).
My rosetta stone for programming is Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu. It's a bit out of date on Objects and I never really learned Smalltalk, but whenever I'm learning a new programming language, I go back to this masterpiece to ground myself.
In the past two months, I've lost 32 pounds, I've lowered my cholesterol to normal levels, and I've increased my daily energy consistently. And all of this, I did by eating two eggs a day (yolk included), eating at least one portion of protein at each meal, drinking plenty of water and unsweetened pure cranberry juice, drinking a table spoon of flaxseed oil in the morning and at night, cutting out sugar (such as fruit juices) and cafeine, limiting my intake of raw carbohydrates (such as bread), and replacing all those carbohydrates with vegetable carbohydrates. See more...
Regardless of whether my mail server used to be "open" or not, I stand by the legal analysis that placed fault on the blackhole operators who forged their identity.
Being technically ignorant is forgivable. Being unable to admit when you're wrong is not.
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I agree. In the case of MIT, I bet most people attend that school because of their research reputation. I did the same for the school I went to, I selected it based on its research reputation, and as an undergrad (e.g. second class citizen); that's probably the biggest mistake I could have made.
High schoolers; don't make the same mistake I've made. Select your University based on the popularity its football team and the quality of its cheerleaders squad. In hindsight, even if you're not interested in football; this rationale makes a lot of sense.
Online education is overrated. A large electronic reference library is not going to do squat for you. By themselves, distance learning and e-learning are worthless.
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/
An then, there is The Smoking Gun. While they don't seem to publish random letters, they do publish embarassing letter or documents that have been sent to a governmental agency. So, perhaps he could publish the document recording the complaint the guy sent to the FBI. That would be even better.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/pubs/ib46.html "The election results mirrored poll after poll in recent years, which have shown that a majority of Taiwanese, especially in the younger generation, consider Taiwan and not China to be their homeland. Large blocs have opted either for the ambiguous status quo of separation from the mainland or have favored clear-cut independence at some undefined time. Only small numbers say they desire to see Taiwan become part of China while it remains in autocratic communist hands. "
That's the successful point of those types of scam. It doesn't really make us feel sorry for the victims*.
Note.* Usually, the victim ends up losing their own money or their own lives, so that last law firm example seems pretty atypical.
I have to agree with your sentiments about not trying to scam a scammer but I don't think you should be showing them that you're afraid of them. Who knows. They could be watching us right now?
Scammers are rational business people, they act out of their economic self-interests. They wouldn't hurt me or you unless there was a logical economic benefit. On a side note, I was almost attacked once in Budapest for trying to explain to the crowd that they were being scammed. When I started explaining things, most people in the crowd started turning on me. It turns out most of them were part of the scam too.
I believe most of the 9/11 terrorists were First class passengers, so I doubt First class passengers are now not being checked.
That explains why some professors wouldn't give us any extensions when the labs' servers were down.
I take back what I said.
The diet I tried is called The Fat Flush Plan by Ann Louise Gittleman. It's an horrible title for a book, but it's worth checking out. At the time it was the most highly reader-rated diet book on Amazon.
Don't you want to keep your phone book, your calendar info, and your address book *private*? It would be useful if I could transfer my things from one medium to another, but that's about it. I don't really want to have people put themselves on my calendar without my permission. Are you really sure you're talking from the perspective of a consumer?
I see nothing wrong with "Fast Food logic". The big mac is not the only thing we're paying for. We're paying for the time their employee is taking to take our order and we're paying for the space we want to take when we sit down.
There goes *your* credibility. Conceptually, the Java Virtual Machine and the .Net Virtual Machine are identical. The only difference is marketing. Microsoft wasn't about to market itself as a Java-wannabe, so it branded its Virtual Machine as something new.
Except for marketing, there is nothing preventing Microsoft from making .Net cross-platform compatible, and at some point in the future, I believe everyone will discover that .Net is indeed cross-platform compatible (if not truly cross-platform compatible, at least they will be as cross-platform compatible as the Java platform is ever going to be)
Even the MS cross-language capability, that's marketing. The Java platform already has multiple languages running on it. For instance, ColfusionMX runs on J2EE. Coldfusion is a syntactic skin that runs on top of Java, that's it. The true underlying language of the CFMX framework is Java. As to C#, ASP.NET, and VB.NET; they are simply skins that are running on top of the MS Intermediate Language. In most cases, you can switch language skins on a .Net program by doing a "search and replace" and the code will still compile.
So, in conclusion, both frameworks are basicely the same. They were both inspired by the same SmallTalk Virtual Machine. One is slightly more up-to-date perhaps, but the other one had a couple of years of headstart. That's really the only difference.
Correction: Xerox PARC, not Xerox Lab, my mistake.
He came from Xerox Lab where he had been one their Star employees for ten years and he started with Microsoft as their *fourth* employee. You bet he had leverage. I'm surprised he didn't ask to be CEO.
Or he negotiated his contract before he was hired by Microsoft. By the time he was hired by Microsoft, he was already a Star at Xerox PARC, so he had the leverage.
On a side note, I read an excellent book on negotiation recently. It's called "Start with No" by Jim Camp. Its first edition just came out on July 2002 and I found it much better than the "Getting to Yes" negotiation book.
"INTENTIONAL PROGRAMMING" A Talk With Charles Simonyit ml
http://www.edge.org/digerati/simonyi/simonyi_p1.h
I believe SmallTalk-71 already had some of those drag-and-drop programming capabilities and Xerox PARC released SmallTalk-80 to IBM sometimes in the 70s.
One big power plant is better than thousands of small power plants.
Perhaps, but I am not so sure. Private companies are not as stupid as everyone make them seem to be. If Microsoft had not supported open standards right from the beginning, it would have died right away. And even now, if Microsoft made any drastic move away from open standards such as xml, html, text, csv, and etc I really doubt it could survive.
And even for the web. Do you really think that private citizens/companies would not have networked their computers without the help of the government?
Point well taken, but the little girl who's just learning to ski should keep herself to the kiddy blue and green slopes.
My rosetta stone for programming is Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu. It's a bit out of date on Objects and I never really learned Smalltalk, but whenever I'm learning a new programming language, I go back to this masterpiece to ground myself.
In the past two months, I've lost 32 pounds, I've lowered my cholesterol to normal levels, and I've increased my daily energy consistently. And all of this, I did by eating two eggs a day (yolk included), eating at least one portion of protein at each meal, drinking plenty of water and unsweetened pure cranberry juice, drinking a table spoon of flaxseed oil in the morning and at night, cutting out sugar (such as fruit juices) and cafeine, limiting my intake of raw carbohydrates (such as bread), and replacing all those carbohydrates with vegetable carbohydrates. See more...
Being technically ignorant is forgivable. Being unable to admit when you're wrong is not.