that every 'think tank' I hear about has some particular groups best interests in mind. And those groups are usually big corporations. I guess they're the only ones that can afford to fund these think tanks and pay for their expensive reports.
After all, thinking isn't free...
nuthin wrong with apple in the class. But why would you say windows is perfect?
Regardless of the fact that it can be used for typing and spreadsheet stuff. It's still pretty damn expensive.
Even if you're just teaching them nonsensical typing and wageslave skills, you could easily use open source software like OpenOffice. Or better yet Abiword and Gnumeric.
Saves money, and if there are any other computer inclined students, they have the option of starting on the path to kernel hacking...
Pretty much anything you can do with windows, you can do with OS's like Linux, OS X or what have you. And in most cases, those other OS' are much more customizable.
The only reason to still use windows is for compatibility (with some sware/hdware, legacy systems, ignorant users). It's not that windows is useless. It can be quite useful:waits for laughter to subside:... at least stable editions like win2k. But the reasons NOT to use it are very compelling (co$t and MS' holier than thou 'tude).
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this yet...
but if you have a newer keyboard with the keys that move forwards and backwards in web browsers, you can also use them for moving between virtual desktops. I just hit Ctrl+[fwd,bck] and I can scroll through my virtual desktops.
This seems to work in every window manager I've tried...
stuff from the FSF is still around in a few decades, and their stuff has been completely rewritten 100 times?
Maybe then they'll realize what sustainable means...
nahh....
It would certainly bring some accountability to the big software development companies. They better provide a secure product. Being crappy and slow doesn't necessarily cause damage except perhaps lost efficiency. But I don't think you could sue over something like that.
But the threat of lawsuits would definitely make companies think twice about securing the software they produce.
And this only means it must be secure to a reasonable degree. Nothing can be completely secure. If some uber hacker wants in she'll get in.
As for open source firms. It may affect the big corporate ones somewhat. But for completely free products, I don't think a lawsuit is very viable. The producers of the product may have very little money to give.
You generally sue someone if they have something to sue for. If it's a non-profit foundation, what can you get?
In this file, if I change the problem-solving logic slightly, I have to change it in several places. What would be truly cool (and incredibly difficult), in my opinion, would be to completely eliminate redundant logic.
What?!? Eliminate redundant logic? That would put microsoft out of business!
MacOS ~ Windows
Java ~ C#
Diablo ~ Dungeon Siege
hmmm, the real spiderman story seems anything but simple. Having the love of your life kidnapped by a crazy billionaire, and then by his son (a former good friend).
Getting a super alien bio-suit, only to find out that it's eating you alive (well kinda) and then to have it show up on your ol' pal eddy brock turning him into your worst nightmare.
Having all sorts of crazy mutations and trying to work as a photographer for a guy who hates your guts.
Sure maybe if you just read one issue, it doesn't have all the crazy plot twists. But if you look over the whole spiderman story (as you should with the Star Wars story) it is filled with many suprises and lots of other funky stuff.
They're just two different genre's. Star Wars wouldn't do well as a comic book (which is why it sells as novel's) and spidey is great as a comic, but wouldn't be as a novel.
they want to get the article on as quickly as possible, so the skip over most of the editing.
But then go back over it and edit it more carefully and then repost it.
The real question is whether content changes. If all the words and the headline are different, it doesn't really matter, as long as the content and main points of the article remain the same.
That said, to be honest, I never read CNN. It's pretty useless for any real news. It's watered down for consumption of the american public. This is common knowledge to just about everyone who doesn't live in North America. Especially concerning touchy american foreign policy issues.
BBC is a lot better
It's kind of the other way around in Canada. Here if a movie has some violence, it will definitely get a stricter rating.
But there are movies with a fair bit of nudity or sexual content that get lower age restrictions.
I guess Canadians are lovers and not fighters;)
On that same website there's another page about mp3 players being sewn into shirts or jackets. They also mention some interesting medical uses.
As for the 2-VU, it looks pretty interesting. And I think a touch screen is rather forward thinking. But I don't like the fact that there's no keyboard anywhere on it. Just because I can type faster than I can write. And my writing is really messy:)
It really is an evil company. More evil than M$ IMHO.
Globalization is just a word people like to throw around. And the use of 3rd world labour in and of itself is not the real problem.
But Walmart, like many other western companies, use cheap labour economies without really giving anything back to them. This isn't really the problem, it's just the after effects of the problem which was originally created by some corrupt government, the IMF and the WTO.
This aside, Walmart is also one of the worst abusers of child labour. It's right up there (if not worse than) with Nike.
And to be honest, I feel that this goes against everything freedom and the open source movement stands for. Which is why I'll never support Walmart. I don't care if they start supporting the open source market. I don't even care if they donate a million dollars to the FSF (though that would be cool, however unlikely). They're not a moral company and will never have my support.
The worst part is Walmart is a supporter for a website to report
exploitation of children...
oh the Enrony of it all!!!
I worked in a government department that lost an entire year of data because they trusted some idiot to setup their database software. By the time they realized and fired him, it was way too late for them to do much but start going back to manual entry.
It's really a problem of how much funding goes into these things (usually not enough) and how much the management staff actually understand the implications of what can possibly go wrong. Blatantly trusting your on-board IT people can lead to serious consequences.
The real problem with media is the people who watch/read/listen to it. People want to be informed so they read the paper for 5 minutes, watch the the news for 3 minutes or listen to the radio for 2 minutes.
People can't be bothered to actually think about the information that they are consuming. This does not only go for big media, but alternative media as well.
Everyone worries about what source is trustworthy and who you should believe. The problem is, no one is 100% trustworthy. So who should you believe? Yourself.
Read whatever the hell you want, but if you dont stop to process the information thoughtfully, then you can do nothing but regurgitate it when asked your opinion.
What people should do is read from every source available and then make their own decisions about what they've read. The problem is, that takes time and effort, which are hard to come by these days.
When someone asks Noam Chomsky, "why should I believe you", his common response is "Don't! Look into it yourself, and you decide what you should believe"... words to live by.
By far, the coolest watch I've seen is my prof's (Dr.Steve Mann) videoconferencing watch running Linux.
http://wearcam.org/wristcam/
Of course, he also wears his Linux box on his belt. For our lectures, he just hooked up a projector to the computer he carries on his belt.
http://wearcam.org/ece385/
Slashdot Mirror
so they didn't pull a lone gunman... they pulled a chrisd
that every 'think tank' I hear about has some particular groups best interests in mind. And those groups are usually big corporations. I guess they're the only ones that can afford to fund these think tanks and pay for their expensive reports.
After all, thinking isn't free...
Downloading woody off that machine would definitely make up for pushing back the stable release date!
nuthin wrong with apple in the class. But why would you say windows is perfect?
:waits for laughter to subside: ... at least stable editions like win2k. But the reasons NOT to use it are very compelling (co$t and MS' holier than thou 'tude).
Regardless of the fact that it can be used for typing and spreadsheet stuff. It's still pretty damn expensive.
Even if you're just teaching them nonsensical typing and wageslave skills, you could easily use open source software like OpenOffice. Or better yet Abiword and Gnumeric.
Saves money, and if there are any other computer inclined students, they have the option of starting on the path to kernel hacking...
Pretty much anything you can do with windows, you can do with OS's like Linux, OS X or what have you. And in most cases, those other OS' are much more customizable.
The only reason to still use windows is for compatibility (with some sware/hdware, legacy systems, ignorant users). It's not that windows is useless. It can be quite useful
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this yet...
but if you have a newer keyboard with the keys that move forwards and backwards in web browsers, you can also use them for moving between virtual desktops. I just hit Ctrl+[fwd,bck] and I can scroll through my virtual desktops.
This seems to work in every window manager I've tried...
they should sell their software to terrorists at a discounted price.
Make the NSA's job really easy...
stuff from the FSF is still around in a few decades, and their stuff has been completely rewritten 100 times?
Maybe then they'll realize what sustainable means...
nahh....
It would certainly bring some accountability to the big software development companies. They better provide a secure product. Being crappy and slow doesn't necessarily cause damage except perhaps lost efficiency. But I don't think you could sue over something like that.
But the threat of lawsuits would definitely make companies think twice about securing the software they produce.
And this only means it must be secure to a reasonable degree. Nothing can be completely secure. If some uber hacker wants in she'll get in.
As for open source firms. It may affect the big corporate ones somewhat. But for completely free products, I don't think a lawsuit is very viable. The producers of the product may have very little money to give.
You generally sue someone if they have something to sue for. If it's a non-profit foundation, what can you get?
In this file, if I change the problem-solving logic slightly, I have to change it in several places. What would be truly cool (and incredibly difficult), in my opinion, would be to completely eliminate redundant logic.
What?!? Eliminate redundant logic? That would put microsoft out of business!
MacOS ~ Windows
Java ~ C#
Diablo ~ Dungeon Siege
it might have been nice to get to slashdot by just typing in "/."
and to get the microsoft site by typing in "you bastards"
hmmm, the real spiderman story seems anything but simple. Having the love of your life kidnapped by a crazy billionaire, and then by his son (a former good friend).
Getting a super alien bio-suit, only to find out that it's eating you alive (well kinda) and then to have it show up on your ol' pal eddy brock turning him into your worst nightmare.
Having all sorts of crazy mutations and trying to work as a photographer for a guy who hates your guts.
Sure maybe if you just read one issue, it doesn't have all the crazy plot twists. But if you look over the whole spiderman story (as you should with the Star Wars story) it is filled with many suprises and lots of other funky stuff.
They're just two different genre's. Star Wars wouldn't do well as a comic book (which is why it sells as novel's) and spidey is great as a comic, but wouldn't be as a novel.
noooooooooooooo!!!!
they're wussing out???
darn those MS Lawyers...
they want to get the article on as quickly as possible, so the skip over most of the editing.
But then go back over it and edit it more carefully and then repost it.
The real question is whether content changes. If all the words and the headline are different, it doesn't really matter, as long as the content and main points of the article remain the same.
That said, to be honest, I never read CNN. It's pretty useless for any real news. It's watered down for consumption of the american public. This is common knowledge to just about everyone who doesn't live in North America. Especially concerning touchy american foreign policy issues.
BBC is a lot better
It's kind of the other way around in Canada. Here if a movie has some violence, it will definitely get a stricter rating. ;)
But there are movies with a fair bit of nudity or sexual content that get lower age restrictions.
I guess Canadians are lovers and not fighters
On that same website there's another page about mp3 players being sewn into shirts or jackets. They also mention some interesting medical uses. :)
As for the 2-VU, it looks pretty interesting. And I think a touch screen is rather forward thinking. But I don't like the fact that there's no keyboard anywhere on it. Just because I can type faster than I can write. And my writing is really messy
It really is an evil company. More evil than M$ IMHO.
Globalization is just a word people like to throw around. And the use of 3rd world labour in and of itself is not the real problem.
But Walmart, like many other western companies, use cheap labour economies without really giving anything back to them. This isn't really the problem, it's just the after effects of the problem which was originally created by some corrupt government, the IMF and the WTO.
This aside, Walmart is also one of the worst abusers of child labour. It's right up there (if not worse than) with Nike.
And to be honest, I feel that this goes against everything freedom and the open source movement stands for. Which is why I'll never support Walmart. I don't care if they start supporting the open source market. I don't even care if they donate a million dollars to the FSF (though that would be cool, however unlikely). They're not a moral company and will never have my support.
The worst part is Walmart is a supporter for a website to report exploitation of children...
oh the Enrony of it all!!!
I worked in a government department that lost an entire year of data because they trusted some idiot to setup their database software. By the time they realized and fired him, it was way too late for them to do much but start going back to manual entry.
It's really a problem of how much funding goes into these things (usually not enough) and how much the management staff actually understand the implications of what can possibly go wrong. Blatantly trusting your on-board IT people can lead to serious consequences.
The real problem with media is the people who watch/read/listen to it. People want to be informed so they read the paper for 5 minutes, watch the the news for 3 minutes or listen to the radio for 2 minutes.
People can't be bothered to actually think about the information that they are consuming. This does not only go for big media, but alternative media as well.
Everyone worries about what source is trustworthy and who you should believe. The problem is, no one is 100% trustworthy. So who should you believe? Yourself.
Read whatever the hell you want, but if you dont stop to process the information thoughtfully, then you can do nothing but regurgitate it when asked your opinion.
What people should do is read from every source available and then make their own decisions about what they've read. The problem is, that takes time and effort, which are hard to come by these days.
When someone asks Noam Chomsky, "why should I believe you", his common response is "Don't! Look into it yourself, and you decide what you should believe"... words to live by.
By far, the coolest watch I've seen is my prof's (Dr.Steve Mann) videoconferencing watch running Linux.
http://wearcam.org/wristcam/
Of course, he also wears his Linux box on his belt. For our lectures, he just hooked up a projector to the computer he carries on his belt.
http://wearcam.org/ece385/
http://kickme.to/debian