And here we have the "If you simplify UNIX then non-l337 people will be able to use it, therefore it will be destroyed." argument. I'm sure removing case sensitivty in this late hour would be a pain, but is there any good reason for it having been there in the first place?
Do not assume getting a CS degree will help you get a job. (the market is saturated with entry level programmers)
Don't get too wrapped up in any one activity.
Avoid credit cards, bad mojo when you don't have any real income.
Get an internship or co-op, paper alone won't land you a job.
Get to know your professors. Become friendly with at least one a semester if you can. They will be helpful as references and as help if you have problems.
Go to class, no really!
Do something in your free time; if you're living off campus, get involved with some friends/groups.
If you're into a techniical major, do some experemination on your own (programming, designing). Otherwise you will fall behind those who have been.
He states our insistence of freedom of speech as the problem, then he blasts our crappy new laws hindering freedom of speech.
Yeah, real consistant argument there. Not unexpected, after all, America is to blame for everything, right?
The point of the insistence on personal freedoms is not just the freedoms themselves, but that a people with the freedom to speak cannot be as easily subjugated by any tyrannical power structure. The most important thing about the net is the ability to share ideas regardless of how the powers that be feel about them.
The system this man wants is localized information oligarchys. And his reason for using it is that America is bad, mmkay.
As long as attitudes like these comprise the majority of Euro viewpoints seen by Americans, the US will be hesitant to cooperate on important matters. Every time we seen a European talking about us, we're being likened to the 3rd reich reincarnated with plague on top. That may not be the majority opinion "over there", but it's the only one that gets any press "over here". You don't see too many US citizens burning other peoples leaders in effigy, but we see that every time our president leaves the country.
Just a little insight (by way of rant), on the motivaions behind US policy. Take it with the requisite amount of salt.
Still got my player, ancient commercial model desen't even do PCM. You csn find good players and a somewhat decent selection of discs on ebay. A few small shops still trade in LDs. The main user base (high-end videophiles) have mostly gone DVD though, don't expect anything new, even Pioneer seems to have dropped it.
Here in the US a few companies are marketing basically a moblie home phone. You get unlimited local calls & are charged a per minuter rate for LD, just like your standard landline. The phones look like standard digital phones, but I don't think roaming is allowed. The coverage area is basically the whole town and surronding area, again like a standard landline. In Charlotte NC it's marketed as Cricket. Sounds like the same kinda idea as Rabbit, but using more modern technology, so the coverage is better.
Not for me, I need national coverage, but it probably will appeal to people who rarely leave town.
...must somebody beat on the "paperless" dead horse. I mean, the thing's down to just pulp now!
Really though, paperless has been thrown around for at least a decade or two and it usually just ends up in a jogjam of everyone printing our the hard copies that they were trying to get rid of in the first place. The technology has some good uses, but an all-or-nothing approach will just lead users to revolt.
That is the point exactly. Those who object to being forced to give their resources away at gunpoint are painted as cruel bastards who don't care for humanity.
Nobody focuses on how much someone like Gates gives away freely, and if someone does, the remainder of his wealth is pointed out as an indictment. "Yeah, but that's just a fraction of his wealth. He's still an rich bastard." Since rich=evil, no amount of giving on his part would atone his sins in the public light.
A good example is every time the issue of taxes comes up on one of these "debate" shows. The "stick it to the man" concept is wielded as the primary justicification for any tax measure. Anyone who opposes something that will tax the rich is instantly "the man". (to be fair, those advocating higher taxation are often immediately cast as reactionary socalists, everybody has to be in a sterotype, ya know)
Why can't humans live like that? By using our "saftey net" to catch everyone, aren't we defeating the very principles of natural selection that led to the rise of humans to begin with?
I think the point was not that taking care of those in need is wrong, but rather building a entire society around taking care of popular needs at the expense of all else will eventually lead to a form of tyranny and collapse.
This is a question our society faces right now as powerful industries are trying to build structures much like those in Atlas in order to protect outdated and no longer usless entities. In other words, to build a "saftey net" to prevent the natural order of business from eliminating them.
Also, I don't really think that Rand was in favor of the loss of unproductive life, but rather was showing it as the unfortunate and inevitable consequence of leaving the unproductive in charge (the demands of the passengers to proceed immediately, regardless of the situation, sealed their own fate).
It is not the act of giving that is called into question, but it is the enforcing of giving by way of guilt. "You made so much money, you owe society your charity." The ideas of need = earned, and rich = guilty of greed/immorality, are the ideas that Rand was railing against.
Note that Galt was perfectly happy working as a laborer, just as long as he was working. There does not seem to be the eletist attitude that is often mis-attributed to this work.
What made Atlas Shrugged truly dystopian is that (to extend the Star Wars analogy), Tarkin responds with a "So? To hell with the Empire, so long as we rule it as it falls", and Vader agrees.And that seems to be just what is happening now in our political structures.
I remember some odd mention on the History channel about a Napelonic (sp?) era device that sorta worked but wasn't developed for long. Anybody got more info on that?
Except DLs are state and not national. In SC out licenses have our info printed on then and then on the magnetic strip and in a barcode type thing for good measure. They're trying to add fingerprint too.
This is all standard. What isn't is that they tried (a couple of years ago) to sell the whole database to an company from another state. It was supposed to be used in some sort of uber fraud prevention system. The outcry was so great that the plan was scrapped, but there's no telling how much info got released before then. Even more interesting was the "donation" this company had recieved from the NSA.
Even if the govt doesnt cross reference all that info out there themselves, there's plenty of companies that would gladly get into that business if allowed. I'm more concerned about the privacy implications of these people than the government themselves.
Who doesn't know someone who has been screwed by one of these spy *cough*, I mean, credit bureaus? It will only get worse. There is little hope for privacy or any other freedoms in this decade.
Actually you analogy sounds exactly like the region coding issued with DVDs. The IP people want to say they have the right to control were thier disc is played. And they want it to be illegal for us to even have the ability to play a US DVD in Madrid.
Your points on price are true, but your assertion on mice is faulty. So there was a study showing users that were slowed down by two button mice. I can just as easily produce a study showing one button mice slow people down. It's a matter of how the populations are chosen. (If I were to take a group of long time 2 or 3 button mouse users, they would have to stop and think every time they did something involving a context menu.)
I'm not meaning to be an ass, but you've been throwing this "fact" in peoples faces, when it's really an opinion. It is an unfortunate tendancy to take a correlation and brand it as proof without going deeper into the causation.
You're point, though, *is* correct, the price is not as much as issue as poeple make it out to be, and the mice issue is trivial.
How about Opteron? They could make a custom chipset to insure that the mobo is still propritary and use the x86 compatiblity to make softwindows smoke.
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And here we have the "If you simplify UNIX then non-l337 people will be able to use it, therefore it will be destroyed." argument. I'm sure removing case sensitivty in this late hour would be a pain, but is there any good reason for it having been there in the first place?
Do not assume getting a CS degree will help you get a job. (the market is saturated with entry level programmers)
Don't get too wrapped up in any one activity.
Avoid credit cards, bad mojo when you don't have any real income.
Get an internship or co-op, paper alone won't land you a job.
Get to know your professors. Become friendly with at least one a semester if you can. They will be helpful as references and as help if you have problems.
Go to class, no really!
Do something in your free time; if you're living off campus, get involved with some friends/groups.
If you're into a techniical major, do some experemination on your own (programming, designing). Otherwise you will fall behind those who have been.
BI-LO got sued for selling their database to an insurance company. No shite. "steaks... beer... cigarettes...Raise his rates!!!"
The point of the insistence on personal freedoms is not just the freedoms themselves, but that a people with the freedom to speak cannot be as easily subjugated by any tyrannical power structure. The most important thing about the net is the ability to share ideas regardless of how the powers that be feel about them.
The system this man wants is localized information oligarchys. And his reason for using it is that America is bad, mmkay.As long as attitudes like these comprise the majority of Euro viewpoints seen by Americans, the US will be hesitant to cooperate on important matters. Every time we seen a European talking about us, we're being likened to the 3rd reich reincarnated with plague on top. That may not be the majority opinion "over there", but it's the only one that gets any press "over here". You don't see too many US citizens burning other peoples leaders in effigy, but we see that every time our president leaves the country.
Just a little insight (by way of rant), on the motivaions behind US policy. Take it with the requisite amount of salt.Still got my player, ancient commercial model desen't even do PCM. You csn find good players and a somewhat decent selection of discs on ebay. A few small shops still trade in LDs. The main user base (high-end videophiles) have mostly gone DVD though, don't expect anything new, even Pioneer seems to have dropped it.
I guess we can infer their stance on the issues: our decisions are definitive, reality is often in error.
Tell me when they can travel at the speed of Bad News, then I'll be interested! (cluebat: that was a joke)
But it doesn't mean you shouldn't either. You don't have to give back a book after you're done reading it, do you?
Not for me, I need national coverage, but it probably will appeal to people who rarely leave town.
Really though, paperless has been thrown around for at least a decade or two and it usually just ends up in a jogjam of everyone printing our the hard copies that they were trying to get rid of in the first place. The technology has some good uses, but an all-or-nothing approach will just lead users to revolt.
Nobody focuses on how much someone like Gates gives away freely, and if someone does, the remainder of his wealth is pointed out as an indictment. "Yeah, but that's just a fraction of his wealth. He's still an rich bastard." Since rich=evil, no amount of giving on his part would atone his sins in the public light.
A good example is every time the issue of taxes comes up on one of these "debate" shows. The "stick it to the man" concept is wielded as the primary justicification for any tax measure. Anyone who opposes something that will tax the rich is instantly "the man". (to be fair, those advocating higher taxation are often immediately cast as reactionary socalists, everybody has to be in a sterotype, ya know)I think the point was not that taking care of those in need is wrong, but rather building a entire society around taking care of popular needs at the expense of all else will eventually lead to a form of tyranny and collapse.
This is a question our society faces right now as powerful industries are trying to build structures much like those in Atlas in order to protect outdated and no longer usless entities. In other words, to build a "saftey net" to prevent the natural order of business from eliminating them.Also, I don't really think that Rand was in favor of the loss of unproductive life, but rather was showing it as the unfortunate and inevitable consequence of leaving the unproductive in charge (the demands of the passengers to proceed immediately, regardless of the situation, sealed their own fate).
It is not the act of giving that is called into question, but it is the enforcing of giving by way of guilt. "You made so much money, you owe society your charity." The ideas of need = earned, and rich = guilty of greed/immorality, are the ideas that Rand was railing against.Note that Galt was perfectly happy working as a laborer, just as long as he was working. There does not seem to be the eletist attitude that is often mis-attributed to this work.
What made Atlas Shrugged truly dystopian is that (to extend the Star Wars analogy), Tarkin responds with a "So? To hell with the Empire, so long as we rule it as it falls", and Vader agrees.And that seems to be just what is happening now in our political structures.
The textbook authors gotta have a reason to make new revisions, ya know.
~$50 will get a card that gets everything until DTV sends an update to break it.
With enough effort, anything is breakable.Is there any way to stop the onslaught of software patents? Or prehaps even reverse the damage that has been done by them?
I remember some odd mention on the History channel about a Napelonic (sp?) era device that sorta worked but wasn't developed for long. Anybody got more info on that?
Except DLs are state and not national. In SC out licenses have our info printed on then and then on the magnetic strip and in a barcode type thing for good measure. They're trying to add fingerprint too.
This is all standard. What isn't is that they tried (a couple of years ago) to sell the whole database to an company from another state. It was supposed to be used in some sort of uber fraud prevention system. The outcry was so great that the plan was scrapped, but there's no telling how much info got released before then. Even more interesting was the "donation" this company had recieved from the NSA.Even if the govt doesnt cross reference all that info out there themselves, there's plenty of companies that would gladly get into that business if allowed. I'm more concerned about the privacy implications of these people than the government themselves.
Who doesn't know someone who has been screwed by one of these spy *cough*, I mean, credit bureaus? It will only get worse. There is little hope for privacy or any other freedoms in this decade.Why not include Team Fortress 2 while they're at it?
Actually you analogy sounds exactly like the region coding issued with DVDs. The IP people want to say they have the right to control were thier disc is played. And they want it to be illegal for us to even have the ability to play a US DVD in Madrid.
I'm not meaning to be an ass, but you've been throwing this "fact" in peoples faces, when it's really an opinion. It is an unfortunate tendancy to take a correlation and brand it as proof without going deeper into the causation.
You're point, though, *is* correct, the price is not as much as issue as poeple make it out to be, and the mice issue is trivial.
Man, I hope they don't find that 20 meg HardCard! And the second 720K floppy drive, oh man I'm screwed!
Am I the only one who remebers being taught in school that he rather than he/she is correct when gender is indefinite? Has English been rewritten too?
How about Opteron? They could make a custom chipset to insure that the mobo is still propritary and use the x86 compatiblity to make softwindows smoke.
And let's not get started on the other guy....
(Hey *I* voted against him!)