This guy is clueless and confused. He even proposes a genetic basis for the problem. First he states that "Poor Attention Span" is a problem for geeks then his argument is that they have a GOOD attention span and get bored when running... which is it?
Some of my best programming time (problem solving) happens when I am running, XC skiing, etc. You have to pay attention and multitask to perform any exercise (as well as program). If you get bored and don't pay attention while running, you'll fall over.
"You DON'T need to keep re-buying windows over and over again. You DON'T need to buy a copy of Windows only to have it be overwritten with a site-licensed version at work. You DON'T need to buy a copy only to scribble all over it with Linux. You SHOULD be able to save $50 off the cost of your PC if you are in one of those catagories."
You SHOULD... but you CAN'T.
MS license specifically states that Windows is for a single install only... trash that computer and you can't transfer the license to another machine... you do have to keep buying Windows over and over.
I've often wondered why corporations buy computers with Windows licenses and then overwrite them with their volume license (pay twice for windows...) but they do.
Just try to buy a laptop without Windows so you can install Linux... not possible (except from some guy in a garage somewhere).
Why is it that corporations who publish content think they can charge people over and over again to listen to the same stuff? Haven't they ever heard of "fair use"?
There is a web site http://laptop.org/ with a wiki and links to the sourcecode (Red Hat servers). I'm sure they would appreciate your help. They are even have jobs available. (Try Google... it's great for finding out this type of information.)
I believe that they are considering selling it in the "developed world" to subsidise costs for the developing world. You can do this regardless of the OS... and open source Linux still makes the most sense for this project.
You don't want some first world corporation holding IP rights to this developing world educational tool. That's the same corrupt road that already exists with pharmaceuticals, entertainment, and most other manufactured goods. At least here there is a chance to have an open source educational tool where some corporation won't be screwing people to rent.
"Strange...the Bush crew is often portrayed as bumblers who can't do anything right, then they are accused of being devious co-conspirators to rule the world. Which is it guys?"
I think it's both... They want to be devious co-conspirators who want to rule the world but they really are clueless bumblers.
Unfortunately, their clueless bumbling is a threat to world stability without any real control... worst of both worlds.
"It's this piece that often flips the "bozo bit" of technical people, who often have engineering background that demand explanations in terms of technology and often don't appreciate the social dimension. "
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It's really an insult to morons (IQ 50-69) and idiots (IQ
Unfortunately, these terms have entered popular language and due to this abuse have been abandoned by the medical community.
"Social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users. A social engineer will commonly use the telephone or Internet to trick people into revealing sensitive information or getting them to do something that is against typical policies."
Examples cited in the article include e-mail and web page social engineering and also your personal interaction: "Social engineering also applies to the act of face-to-face manipulation to gain physical access to computer systems."
This is not "public health" spending but rather public spending on healthcare (primarily Medicare and Medicaid).
Big difference... public health spending buys you health prevention and health promotion activities (i.e. "Don't get fat", "Eat right", "Don't smoke"). Public spending on healthcare just buys you doctor visits at public expense.
Wow... I used to actually have one of those colored plastic sheet things to put on our BW TV! My dad was always waiting for color TV to be "perfected" so we had BW for a long time. IIRC, it had a warm flesh tone area in the center (only white people were on TV in those days)... it worked amazingly well.
Interesting that the **AAs have successfully eliminated the concept of "fair use". We all now believe that all file sharing is illegal.
Folks... back in the old days, we had the right to share music files with our friends, make backup copies, and copy files to different media.
Now we have the **AAs (with Apple as the enforcer) preventing us from doing this... oh well, we've lost a lot of other freedoms, too, and nobody seems to mind.
This is an older Jetta (2001) and there is a key to the doors and trunk but they key only turns an electrical switch in the door. There is no mechanical connection when you turn the key... SOL when the battery is dead.
I had this problem with my VW Jetta. All of the locks are electrical... no mechanical action.
The battery went dead and I couldn't get into the car... had to call AAA to break into the car and open the door from the inside (they are good at it)./Mark
If you had RTFA you would have known that most cell wireless providers offer "unlimited" access plans for about $60 - $80 per month which is expensive but not outrageous.
Actually, the last company I worked for used MS Office 97 as their standard and I found it just fine for everything I did (including lots of collaborative documents with people using lots of different versions of MS Office).
Now that I'm an independent consultant I use OpenOffice.org and find it works great in the same highly collaborative environment. I use word, spreadsheet, and presentation applications and share them extensively.
I'm sure the corporate IT drones are wetting their pants over all of the new Office 2007 features but nobody will actually use that stuff.
Microsoft hasn't killed FoxPro but they have prevented it from becoming a competitor to Access. Prior to the purchase, FoxPro was on track to eat Access market share. It was faster, more stable, and had more functionality. They haven't killed FoxPro but have kept it in its place (running legacy specialized applications).
Four of these five applications are only for specialized geek users (who probably voted early and often in this poll). Really, most normal people don't use these programs.
The fifth, iTunes, is a proprietary DRM package that it would be best to stay away from (although it too, is popular in geekdom).
This is just another scummy politician doing the bidding of the entertainment industry. Notice that he only wants people educated about "illegal P2P" and of course this is sponsored by MPAA and RIAA.
I personally would love to see people educated about their fair use rights which have become trampled and muddied by the **AA propaganda but I don't think that will be in the curriculum.
It's really hard to kill an open source project since in many cases there is no one to sue. The source code is out there and anyone can find it and use it and there's no way to find them. It's like trying to eliminate MP3 file sharing... impossible to stamp out.
Yours is just one of many posts saying Skype is proprietary, closed source, can't validate code, unaccounable, potentially unreliable, etc.
I can't help thinking about other software such as Microsoft Office which is proprietary, closed source, can't validate code, unreliable (proven with viruses), etc.
How on earth did MS Office (and most of the other software you use) ever get approved?... or are there different standards?
Also interesting all of the small, nimble companies that have adopted Skype and are realizing huge savings... it looks like somebody's lunch is about to get eaten.
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This guy is clueless and confused. He even proposes a genetic basis for the problem. First he states that "Poor Attention Span" is a problem for geeks then his argument is that they have a GOOD attention span and get bored when running... which is it?
Some of my best programming time (problem solving) happens when I am running, XC skiing, etc. You have to pay attention and multitask to perform any exercise (as well as program). If you get bored and don't pay attention while running, you'll fall over.
You SHOULD... but you CAN'T. MS license specifically states that Windows is for a single install only... trash that computer and you can't transfer the license to another machine... you do have to keep buying Windows over and over.
I've often wondered why corporations buy computers with Windows licenses and then overwrite them with their volume license (pay twice for windows...) but they do.
Just try to buy a laptop without Windows so you can install Linux... not possible (except from some guy in a garage somewhere).
Why is it that corporations who publish content think they can charge people over and over again to listen to the same stuff? Haven't they ever heard of "fair use"?
There is a web site http://laptop.org/ with a wiki and links to the sourcecode (Red Hat servers). I'm sure they would appreciate your help. They are even have jobs available. (Try Google... it's great for finding out this type of information.)
You don't want some first world corporation holding IP rights to this developing world educational tool. That's the same corrupt road that already exists with pharmaceuticals, entertainment, and most other manufactured goods. At least here there is a chance to have an open source educational tool where some corporation won't be screwing people to rent.
Just hope the battery holds out in your iPod...
I think it's both... They want to be devious co-conspirators who want to rule the world but they really are clueless bumblers.
Unfortunately, their clueless bumbling is a threat to world stability without any real control ... worst of both worlds.
"It's this piece that often flips the "bozo bit" of technical people, who often have engineering background that demand explanations in terms of technology and often don't appreciate the social dimension. "
It's really an insult to morons (IQ 50-69) and idiots (IQ Unfortunately, these terms have entered popular language and due to this abuse have been abandoned by the medical community.
"Social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users. A social engineer will commonly use the telephone or Internet to trick people into revealing sensitive information or getting them to do something that is against typical policies."
Examples cited in the article include e-mail and web page social engineering and also your personal interaction: "Social engineering also applies to the act of face-to-face manipulation to gain physical access to computer systems."
"Another member fired up a MySQL database client and started to poke around the students databases looking for sensitive data."
This looks like social engineering to me.
Big difference... public health spending buys you health prevention and health promotion activities (i.e. "Don't get fat", "Eat right", "Don't smoke"). Public spending on healthcare just buys you doctor visits at public expense.
Wow... I used to actually have one of those colored plastic sheet things to put on our BW TV! My dad was always waiting for color TV to be "perfected" so we had BW for a long time. IIRC, it had a warm flesh tone area in the center (only white people were on TV in those days)... it worked amazingly well.
Folks... back in the old days, we had the right to share music files with our friends, make backup copies, and copy files to different media.
Now we have the **AAs (with Apple as the enforcer) preventing us from doing this... oh well, we've lost a lot of other freedoms, too, and nobody seems to mind.
This is an older Jetta (2001) and there is a key to the doors and trunk but they key only turns an electrical switch in the door. There is no mechanical connection when you turn the key... SOL when the battery is dead.
I had this problem with my VW Jetta. All of the locks are electrical... no mechanical action. The battery went dead and I couldn't get into the car... had to call AAA to break into the car and open the door from the inside (they are good at it). /Mark
If you had RTFA you would have known that most cell wireless providers offer "unlimited" access plans for about $60 - $80 per month which is expensive but not outrageous.
Now that I'm an independent consultant I use OpenOffice.org and find it works great in the same highly collaborative environment. I use word, spreadsheet, and presentation applications and share them extensively.
I'm sure the corporate IT drones are wetting their pants over all of the new Office 2007 features but nobody will actually use that stuff.
Microsoft hasn't killed FoxPro but they have prevented it from becoming a competitor to Access. Prior to the purchase, FoxPro was on track to eat Access market share. It was faster, more stable, and had more functionality. They haven't killed FoxPro but have kept it in its place (running legacy specialized applications).
The fifth, iTunes, is a proprietary DRM package that it would be best to stay away from (although it too, is popular in geekdom).
I personally would love to see people educated about their fair use rights which have become trampled and muddied by the **AA propaganda but I don't think that will be in the curriculum.
It's really hard to kill an open source project since in many cases there is no one to sue. The source code is out there and anyone can find it and use it and there's no way to find them. It's like trying to eliminate MP3 file sharing... impossible to stamp out.
I was getting really tired of the old "faux video".
It just sounds so much more... grand?
I can't help thinking about other software such as Microsoft Office which is proprietary, closed source, can't validate code, unreliable (proven with viruses), etc.
How on earth did MS Office (and most of the other software you use) ever get approved? ... or are there different standards?
Also interesting all of the small, nimble companies that have adopted Skype and are realizing huge savings... it looks like somebody's lunch is about to get eaten.