Did anyone else read this and think they were having a flashback to the '90s? Also, I have to side with the "don't use math much" lobby. Although, if you generalize enough, problem solving all becomes Algebra.
I don't know whether I should be amused or saddened that you assume I support corporate welfare.
You probably shouldn't be either. I was not commenting on what you believe. I was merely pointing out that the government does not have an "adapt or die" mentality when it comes to business. Plenty of industries are propped up by the government.
Yeah, the business world would never think about getting help from the government to stay afloat (airlines, agriculture, Amtrack,...).
And, although people can't seem to read financial statements, NPR is not a direct recipient of any Federal budget. The "tax" money that they receive is in the form of grants or fees charged to the local affiliates that are somewhat government funded. But, it the audience shifts from the radio to the internet, the affiliates will have no reason to pay for the programs.
working at a Radio Shack and selling 386 systems with a whopping 80MB hard drives. I told customers that there was no way that they would ever fill up and entire 80 Megs!
You are reading a lot of nonexistent opinions into my post. I believe I was pretty clear about my opinions of my current government. My only point was that judging everyone in the military as immoral killing machines is pretty shallow. I agree with all you said about education. Although, I would point out that the 400 billion you quoted is just the normal military budget. The Iraq war is a separate expense, is in the Trillions of dollars (pretty much all debt), and will probably keep the government from properly funding education for decades to come.
Besides, the average marine has about a high school education, no morals and a low threshold for the sanctity of life. They might as well be robots anyways.:-)
Actually, the average marine is just young. Young people are used in the military specifically for their physical strength and their comparative lack of introspection. It is asinine to claim that the lack morals or lack respect for the sanctity of life.
This interesting thing about young people, and I am guessing that you are one based your absolute moral judgement about people who you don't try to understand, is that they see the world in binaries. Someone is either a good guy, or evil. You are either "one of us" or "one of them". It is actually a lot like the world view of the current administration (but they are old enough to know better).
I would have to say that someone who joins the Marines may have a messed up view of the world situation. But, there are plenty of people who joined the military before this fiasco. I joined the Navy Reserve in order to get money for college. Once in, I could have been called back for the next 8 years. Don't forget that 30% (as I recall) of the fighting force in Iraq is made up of reservists.
Also, there may be no official draft, but there are plenty of people in this country who have very limited opportunity to do anything else. If you are graduating high school and your choices are to either work at Walmart the rest of your life, or join the military and attend college on the GI bill, the choice is not so clear.
Moral certainty is the real of religious zealots, PETA, and NeoCons. Try to think things through a bit.
Bullshit. There are nonreligious accounts of many religious events. For example, the flood is recorded in the Bible, and in the story of Gilgamesh.
Just like Forest Gump must be a true story because we all know that the major events in that story (the Vietnam war, integration, etc.) all happened and can be confirmed by other sources! Even better, we have footage of Forest at those events!
We all know that a story written after a historical event can't possibly reference the event without being true, right?
And heres one for you. Why did God send Jesus when he did? Its really easy: Romans had just conquored the known world and established paved roads, it made it real easy for the religion to spread like wildfire.
Or, there were 100 guys just like Jesus who came along at a time when it was not so easy for religion to spread like a wildfire.
Finding a surprising correlation among past events is easy. When religion allows us to make accurate predictions of future events, I'll be more impressed.
Actually, if those were only those two options, you would be correct. But, he is not saying that Genesis is a parable and therefore I.D. is correct. He is only saying that the creation story in Genesis is not be taken as a literal truth.
One would have to think, however, that if you believe in a God, and you believe that God created life, you would have to believe that God has some influence on the shape of life.
I don't believe in God. But, if I did, I would not think that he/she/it set up life to develop on this planet and then lost interest. That being said, I don't believe that I.D. should be taught as a valid theory because it gains us nothing scientifically. If anything, it becomes a roadblock where once you reach a certain point everything becomes "God's will" and no further knowledge can be gained.
True knowledge can only come to those who can admit that they don't already know the answers.
If they hadn't gotten a $150 million cash infusion from Microsoft in 1997? That kept the company afloat when it was about to go down for the third time.
As I recall, Apple still had a $4 Billion cash reserve at the time.
I was hired at my current position even though they were using my least familiar language for development and transitioning to.Net which I had never used at all. The trick was that I interviewed directly with the development team and bypassed HR. I am not sure how that happened, as it is not the normal policy of this company.
The consensus view was that if I could handle C++, ASP, JAVA, and JSP, then I could handle VB development and.Net. Actually, I spent most of the time selling my ability to solve complex problems. Code monkeys are easy to find, problem solvers are not.
I have come to the conclusion that it is a loosing proposition to sell yourself as an expert in a specific language, unless you are talking to an HR drone.
Actually, Apple didn't introduce USB. The closest you can say they "introduced" usb is that they moved their keyboard to USB before most other manufacturers. But they certaintly didn't introduct USB, and they DEFINATELY weren't the first with USB in their consumer systems.
True, but they did push the use of Firewire. Not quite as universally used, but still great.
There were PLENTY of manufacturers who removed the floppy on their systems before apple. Namely, the huge market for laptops which was at the time already significantly more machines than apple was currently shipping through their entire product line.
Are you talking about full size laptops, or micros? Because I don't recall any full size systems removing the floppy drives before Apple made their move. In fact, I thought it kind of sucked. It was a LONG time between the removal of the floppy drives and the availability of reasonably priced ram drives.
I paid for the built-in Zip drive on my first G4 just so I would have a way to transfer files.
And yes, I am an Apple Fanboy (no, it doesn't suck)! I have worked with Wintel machines my entire life (well, since Windows 3.2 anyway). When I go home I fire up a computer that is a joy to use.
Is there even such a thing as a Wintel fanboy? Or, does Windows suck so bad that even die hard geeks with buyer's remorse can't even cling to some delusion of adequacy?
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1. OpenDoc - This was just kind of cool. 2. Hellcats Over the Pacific - Old fashioned dogfighting 3. Hypercard - Fun for the whole family 4. Mechwarrior 1 - The new ones may be fun too, but this falls under the same category as #2. Games tend to get more complicated over time.
Forgive me. You're correct. The file extension on those free music files is not mp3... a distinction that I'm sure is highly significant to you and perhaps five other people.
This is Slashdot, I hope that distinction is significant for just about everyone reading this site. If not, can I suggest http://people.aol.com/people?
Good luck. We have a president that essentially ran on the platform of anti-intellectualism. The right seems to think that if you have studied a topic you loose any credibility while discussing that topic.
I have not seen the SA version. But, in the first GTA, couldn't you have sex with a hooker and then kill her to get your money back? How can there be hidden content that is any worse than the blatant content? A hard core porn video could only elevate the morality of this thing!
In fact, I demand less violence and more porn on television!
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Did anyone else read this and think they were having a flashback to the '90s? Also, I have to side with the "don't use math much" lobby. Although, if you generalize enough, problem solving all becomes Algebra.
You probably shouldn't be either. I was not commenting on what you believe. I was merely pointing out that the government does not have an "adapt or die" mentality when it comes to business. Plenty of industries are propped up by the government.
Yeah, the business world would never think about getting help from the government to stay afloat (airlines, agriculture, Amtrack, ...).
And, although people can't seem to read financial statements, NPR is not a direct recipient of any Federal budget. The "tax" money that they receive is in the form of grants or fees charged to the local affiliates that are somewhat government funded. But, it the audience shifts from the radio to the internet, the affiliates will have no reason to pay for the programs.
Not to split hairs, but The Prairie Home Companion is produced and distributed through American Public Media, not NPR.
Instead of letting people vote on Apple's worst product, they should let people vote on what products people thought were cool, but died anyway.
I'll start:
Newton (of course),
geopod (early voice capability was cool),
opendoc (with Cyberdog!),
and Hypercard!
Boy, am I old!
Dvorak is post as A/C now?
You are reading a lot of nonexistent opinions into my post. I believe I was pretty clear about my opinions of my current government. My only point was that judging everyone in the military as immoral killing machines is pretty shallow. I agree with all you said about education. Although, I would point out that the 400 billion you quoted is just the normal military budget. The Iraq war is a separate expense, is in the Trillions of dollars (pretty much all debt), and will probably keep the government from properly funding education for decades to come.
Actually, the average marine is just young. Young people are used in the military specifically for their physical strength and their comparative lack of introspection. It is asinine to claim that the lack morals or lack respect for the sanctity of life.
This interesting thing about young people, and I am guessing that you are one based your absolute moral judgement about people who you don't try to understand, is that they see the world in binaries. Someone is either a good guy, or evil. You are either "one of us" or "one of them". It is actually a lot like the world view of the current administration (but they are old enough to know better).
I would have to say that someone who joins the Marines may have a messed up view of the world situation. But, there are plenty of people who joined the military before this fiasco. I joined the Navy Reserve in order to get money for college. Once in, I could have been called back for the next 8 years. Don't forget that 30% (as I recall) of the fighting force in Iraq is made up of reservists.
Also, there may be no official draft, but there are plenty of people in this country who have very limited opportunity to do anything else. If you are graduating high school and your choices are to either work at Walmart the rest of your life, or join the military and attend college on the GI bill, the choice is not so clear.
Moral certainty is the real of religious zealots, PETA, and NeoCons. Try to think things through a bit.
Same in the US.
Just like Forest Gump must be a true story because we all know that the major events in that story (the Vietnam war, integration, etc.) all happened and can be confirmed by other sources! Even better, we have footage of Forest at those events!
We all know that a story written after a historical event can't possibly reference the event without being true, right?
Or, there were 100 guys just like Jesus who came along at a time when it was not so easy for religion to spread like a wildfire.
Finding a surprising correlation among past events is easy. When religion allows us to make accurate predictions of future events, I'll be more impressed.
Actually, if those were only those two options, you would be correct. But, he is not saying that Genesis is a parable and therefore I.D. is correct. He is only saying that the creation story in Genesis is not be taken as a literal truth.
One would have to think, however, that if you believe in a God, and you believe that God created life, you would have to believe that God has some influence on the shape of life.
I don't believe in God. But, if I did, I would not think that he/she/it set up life to develop on this planet and then lost interest. That being said, I don't believe that I.D. should be taught as a valid theory because it gains us nothing scientifically. If anything, it becomes a roadblock where once you reach a certain point everything becomes "God's will" and no further knowledge can be gained.
True knowledge can only come to those who can admit that they don't already know the answers.
As I recall, Apple still had a $4 Billion cash reserve at the time.
I was hired at my current position even though they were using my least familiar language for development and transitioning to .Net which I had never used at all. The trick was that I interviewed directly with the development team and bypassed HR. I am not sure how that happened, as it is not the normal policy of this company.
.Net. Actually, I spent most of the time selling my ability to solve complex problems. Code monkeys are easy to find, problem solvers are not.
The consensus view was that if I could handle C++, ASP, JAVA, and JSP, then I could handle VB development and
I have come to the conclusion that it is a loosing proposition to sell yourself as an expert in a specific language, unless you are talking to an HR drone.
If I am correct (fat chance), wouldn't a hot shot lawyer know that?
The problem is that it would only take us three years to get to the moon. The other ten years will be used to figure out why we want to go back there.
That's a slogan??? Maybe Bill isn't a marketing genius.
I paid for the built-in Zip drive on my first G4 just so I would have a way to transfer files.
And yes, I am an Apple Fanboy (no, it doesn't suck)! I have worked with Wintel machines my entire life (well, since Windows 3.2 anyway). When I go home I fire up a computer that is a joy to use.
Is there even such a thing as a Wintel fanboy? Or, does Windows suck so bad that even die hard geeks with buyer's remorse can't even cling to some delusion of adequacy?
When did Bill Gates start writing for the NYT?
1. OpenDoc - This was just kind of cool.
2. Hellcats Over the Pacific - Old fashioned dogfighting
3. Hypercard - Fun for the whole family
4. Mechwarrior 1 - The new ones may be fun too, but this falls under the same category as #2. Games tend to get more complicated over time.
That is some act! What do you call it? The Aristocrats!
This is Slashdot, I hope that distinction is significant for just about everyone reading this site. If not, can I suggest http://people.aol.com/people?
Good luck. We have a president that essentially ran on the platform of anti-intellectualism. The right seems to think that if you have studied a topic you loose any credibility while discussing that topic.
I have not seen the SA version. But, in the first GTA, couldn't you have sex with a hooker and then kill her to get your money back? How can there be hidden content that is any worse than the blatant content? A hard core porn video could only elevate the morality of this thing!
In fact, I demand less violence and more porn on television!