To my knowledge the only word banned from television in Japan is "manko" (can't use hiragana on Slashdot) which is similar to our "cunt". Manko also carries with it the connotation of a "fish like" smell.
One problem I have with regarding opinion poll results with any level of confidence is that no researcher has ever approached me to ask MY opinion about anything. 2100 is a fairly small number, and can be easily skewed.
Some of you may recall the story about school administrators using laptop cameras to spy on its students ( link to article ). In that case, no charges were could be brought against the school administrators.
How is it that students doing the same to their administrators are treated as criminals, then? This world is so confusing.
General rule of thumb: Never send anything in E-Mail that you don't want to appear on the front page of a newspaper the next day.
E-Mail is stored unencrypted on several servers along its path, and due to some weird legislation is required to be stored that way for several years ( in case authorities "need to know" what you said ). Also, any one of those server's administrators could be bored and have bad ethical standards.
If you are sending unencrypted personal E-Mail from work, there is no doubt that your employers can and probably do read some of your mail.
To illustrate my own point... in one of my "web development" university classes I had to teach my professor what PHP was. The next semester she was teaching PHP... I did not take that class.
The problem for me was that teachers knew absolutely nothing about technology and were expected to teach it. True pupils were not interested in using a word processor or Power Point... we were already writing programs and creating new technology. High school and university were only review.
The slow pace of most computer "classes" merely hinders and creates frustration.
If these work the same way that stereoscopic gaming glasses worked in the past, expect to see a 50% dimming effect in your games since half of the time light will be filtered from your field of vision.
"online" investigators and trackers - the most any of them ever do is type the name of their target into myspace or facebook.
News reporters typically talk about computer technology like it's some sort of mystifying science that makes all things scary come to life and chase your children.
If the market were driven by developers, we WOULD have plenty of alternatives. In my experience, clients and bosses - who know nothing about web related technology - are the ones who dictate the tools that will be used, rather than bothering to research alternatives.
It's a bit like a patient going to the doctor and saying she needs a kidney transplant before ever getting diagnosed with anything. And for some insane reason, the doctor just does it.
I've had bosses try to tell me that I needed to do a website in flash because it had rollover buttons. Wooo!
I actually prefer keeping Microsoft around as a slightly-more-popular option. It's sort of like putting a pile of rotten flesh and garbage in a trough and letting the zombies feed while the rest of us party at the mall.
My monitor is as thin as a sheet - in fact, it IS a sheet! All you need is a cheap (or expensive, depending on the size of your wallet) projector and a bedsheet and you've got yourself a screen you can fold up and iron!
Quaoar (pronounced Kwah-o-ar) - which is still hard to pronounce.
This discovery is being hailed as the most important solar system discovery in the past 72 years.
I'll say, it's the first "planet" that's not been named after a greek god! This one gets its name from the creation force of the Tongva Indian tribe! How cool, huh? We waited 72 years for something to pop up and we wreck our big chance at coming up with a cool name and call it Quaoar?
If you're a windows user, miranda icq is very nice, tiny, and skinnable. If you're a linux user, no doubt you've heard of licq or Kit. And if you want something more than just icq, both Trillian (windows) and jabber (linux) are good alternatives to using the default icq bloated adware.
Perhaps some of these Universities might consider capping the bandwidth limit for students if it's really that big of an issue. Really, if it's bandwidth they're after, then why not buy better bandwidth? It should be the University's responsibility, not the student's.
On the other hand, if they're worried about copyrighted material, and they are, then hats off to them for bowing to the fecal lords.
Perhaps a new CPU or a pair of descent speakers... But when they want to sell me fraud protection for a $200 limit card -- I merely chuckle.
Hmm... Here's a copy of a certain email I got a while back that seemed fishy.
On the authentication page, you will be requested to enter a password.
Your password is:
-First initial of the primary accountholder's first name - First initial of the primary accountholder's last name - Last 4 digits of the primary accountholder's Social Security Number - Last 2 digits of the primary accountholder's birth year
All this for testing validity? And why send it after I've already been using the card for three months? Hmm...
As soon as things begin to become standardized, the major companies involved get the idea that they can charge (more) for it. When there are two Blockbusters and three Starbucks on every corner, who's gonna wonder anymore about the neighborhood coffee haus and rental emporium?
In short, it's best imo to keep things diverse. Afterall, I sort of don't mind having six windows open, as long as there are multiple desktops
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To my knowledge the only word banned from television in Japan is "manko" (can't use hiragana on Slashdot) which is similar to our "cunt". Manko also carries with it the connotation of a "fish like" smell.
Could somebody explain why this is a bad thing? If people take words less seriously, perhaps we'll stop making wars out of them.
One problem I have with regarding opinion poll results with any level of confidence is that no researcher has ever approached me to ask MY opinion about anything. 2100 is a fairly small number, and can be easily skewed.
Some of you may recall the story about school administrators using laptop cameras to spy on its students ( link to article ). In that case, no charges were could be brought against the school administrators. How is it that students doing the same to their administrators are treated as criminals, then? This world is so confusing.
Does anybody else notice the irony here?
Maybe this will give them an idea of how it feels to have your privacy invaded.
General rule of thumb: Never send anything in E-Mail that you don't want to appear on the front page of a newspaper the next day.
E-Mail is stored unencrypted on several servers along its path, and due to some weird legislation is required to be stored that way for several years ( in case authorities "need to know" what you said ). Also, any one of those server's administrators could be bored and have bad ethical standards.
If you are sending unencrypted personal E-Mail from work, there is no doubt that your employers can and probably do read some of your mail.
Don't buy an expensive security system. Just buy the sticker.
To illustrate my own point... in one of my "web development" university classes I had to teach my professor what PHP was. The next semester she was teaching PHP... I did not take that class.
The problem for me was that teachers knew absolutely nothing about technology and were expected to teach it. True pupils were not interested in using a word processor or Power Point... we were already writing programs and creating new technology. High school and university were only review. The slow pace of most computer "classes" merely hinders and creates frustration.
It's called Limited Liability. Risk is outsourced to tax payers.
Unfortunately, employers use the "bad economy" argument to try and justify the rampant abuse. A perceived bad economy is an employer's best friend.
$10B for open source software? They do know they can download it for free... right?
If these work the same way that stereoscopic gaming glasses worked in the past, expect to see a 50% dimming effect in your games since half of the time light will be filtered from your field of vision.
"online" investigators and trackers - the most any of them ever do is type the name of their target into myspace or facebook.
News reporters typically talk about computer technology like it's some sort of mystifying science that makes all things scary come to life and chase your children.
If the market were driven by developers, we WOULD have plenty of alternatives. In my experience, clients and bosses - who know nothing about web related technology - are the ones who dictate the tools that will be used, rather than bothering to research alternatives.
It's a bit like a patient going to the doctor and saying she needs a kidney transplant before ever getting diagnosed with anything. And for some insane reason, the doctor just does it.
I've had bosses try to tell me that I needed to do a website in flash because it had rollover buttons. Wooo!
I actually prefer keeping Microsoft around as a slightly-more-popular option. It's sort of like putting a pile of rotten flesh and garbage in a trough and letting the zombies feed while the rest of us party at the mall.
So now's the time to buy all that *ahem* questionable stuff from those *ahem* anonymous sources, right? That is, before they start archiving...
La de daa..
My monitor is as thin as a sheet - in fact, it IS a sheet! All you need is a cheap (or expensive, depending on the size of your wallet) projector and a bedsheet and you've got yourself a screen you can fold up and iron!
86 hours at the computer? That's nothing! I used to watch windows defrag!
Quaoar (pronounced Kwah-o-ar) - which is still hard to pronounce.
;)
This discovery is being hailed as the most important solar system discovery in the past 72 years.
I'll say, it's the first "planet" that's not been named after a greek god! This one gets its name from the creation force of the Tongva Indian tribe! How cool, huh? We waited 72 years for something to pop up and we wreck our big chance at coming up with a cool name and call it Quaoar?
Clearly this speaks for humanity.
If you're a windows user, miranda icq is very nice, tiny, and skinnable. If you're a linux user, no doubt you've heard of licq or Kit. And if you want something more than just icq, both Trillian (windows) and jabber (linux) are good alternatives to using the default icq bloated adware.
Watashi wa watashi.
I would have taken a slide show, but I was too busy reading books, wearing static guards and making sure every jumper was just exactly so.
Funny how your perspective changes. Static guard? What's THAT?
"They say the only way to really avoid static is to take off your clothes." -Lain
Ha har har
Perhaps some of these Universities might consider capping the bandwidth limit for students if it's really that big of an issue. Really, if it's bandwidth they're after, then why not buy better bandwidth? It should be the University's responsibility, not the student's.
On the other hand, if they're worried about copyrighted material, and they are, then hats off to them for bowing to the fecal lords.
Hmm... Here's a copy of a certain email I got a while back that seemed fishy.
On the authentication page, you will be requested to enter a password. Your password is:
All this for testing validity? And why send it after I've already been using the card for three months? Hmm...
As soon as things begin to become standardized, the major companies involved get the idea that they can charge (more) for it. When there are two Blockbusters and three Starbucks on every corner, who's gonna wonder anymore about the neighborhood coffee haus and rental emporium?
In short, it's best imo to keep things diverse. Afterall, I sort of don't mind having six windows open, as long as there are multiple desktops