I shouldn't have to cripple my applications to avoid this, I should have the option to turn just this new 'feature' off whilst allowing my apps to continue to work properly. And yes I should be surprised - outraged even - that applications will collect my data to be "used arbitrarily including selling it to other interested parties". I should be able to disable that.
School is the opposite of work. At work I am paid for providing value to my employer. At school the school provides the child with value: and education, in other-words the exact opposite.
I don't think it's so much a case of it not deserving to be compared but rather the comparison is irrelevant. You might just as well compare it to a microwave oven and complain that you can't use it to re-heat food.
The important points about this device are:
- it's as Free as it's possible to make such a device.
- it's a handheld (so a comparison with a netbook is also irrelevant).
- it has frickin' lasers.
- it's cheap- well within my impulse-buy limits.
I've bought one both to support "Free" and because I've wanted a pocketable Lisp machine for a while now.
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Perhaps if you read some of the many posts above yours before making your smart remarks then you'd know.
And not all of us on/. are mere consumers, some of us actually like to know how stuff works, be able to learn from it and improve it if we feel like. Which is the essence of the Freedom being talked about here. But as someone who just likes to look at the shiney you wouldn't appreciate that freedom. (And you're too ignorant to appreciate that the whole of the internet and the WWW were built around those principles).
It's not aimed at "consumers" i.e. people who are just going to use it browse the web so nonsense about bloaty-Firefox or Javascript versus normal html anchors are irrelevant.
The point of it is:
It's as Free as it's possible to make such a device
It's a handheld (which, for the benefit of the retards who suggest getting a netbook, is smaller than a netbook).
It's cheap.
And it has frickin' lasers!
I've already ordered one because I plan on using it to hack Lisp. Don't care about wifi or ethernet as I have an iPhone and a Macbook Air for when I want to be a consumer.
...what I want to know is why none of Apple's executives are white, middle-classed, English, over 6', fat and post on slashdot under the name CountBrass?!?! Every company I've ever worked for had at least one!
...we never see similar questions being asked of our national sports teams? It's always struck me that their composition is far, far off what it should be if it properly represented our nation's ethnic diversity. Or perhaps it's that, sensibly, our sports teams are selected by ability and not colour or creed?
Some things deserve a permanent stigma: in this case how can you seriously expect he would continue to act in a role that requires significant trust when he's proven he can't be trusted?
It's right there in the summary "...installed a back-door program on computers — including some on federal government networks...". 'Installed' not 'was capable of installing'. Basic literacy ftw?
You're suffering from the 'modern' disease that everyone has to 'succeed' and we should dumb down to the lowest common denominator. When I learnt to programme it was using the school's Commodore Pet. I didn't have a computer at home at all but that didn't stop me, because I was interested enough to make the effort.
...whether you were being humorous or are just a complete moron. I'm going to go with moron.
The question was testing your ability to understand the question (it's not about a song), criticaly think (you could even disagree with the question's premise) and to then express yourself coherently. You clearely fell at the first hurdle (you couldn't even understand the question) and the test served it's purpose in sorting the wheat from the chaff.
I wouldn't feel bad.
My personal theory is that when taking part in conversations like this it's the verbal part of our brain, not the usual writing part, that's used. Hence mistakes like writing "it's" when you mean "its" and vice-versa and "there" or "their" or "they're" because to your verbal brain they sound the same and therefore are.
People's use of "cuz" and "lol" and "wtf" in sentences is also explained by my theory. I suspect they talk that way as well, they're just morons.
Your problem is that you're an eternal student. A stack of advanced degrees philosophising about the sex life of the inside of a ping-pong ball are indeed worthless. But what makes you unemployable is your lack of experience and that you have never learned to work. It's that lack rather than the fact you have those degrees that's the problem. Employers are going to suspect that all you'll be an architecture astronaut and never actually deliver. On time. and to budget. Because that's not what students do and that's all the experience you have.
Perhaps your expectations have been too high? Did you expect to walk in to a senior position just because you'd been a student for most of your life? That's as ludicrous as if I expected to walk into a Professorship at Oxford without a stack of academic qualifications. Does that mean my industry experience is worthless? Of course not.
What makes me valuable is that I have both academic and industry experience. Just because you chose to follow and unbalanced career as a permanent student doesn't mean all academic qualifications are worthless. You were just unwise. So either stick with academia where your experience has some value or suck it up and start from the bottom.
He single handedly lost the case according to the article. He knowingly gave false estimates to BSkyB the only point on which the court upheld BSB's complaints and as a result EDS lost the case. It appears the court decided this largely on the basis of his dishonest account of obtaining a degree (given in court under oath).
So to say he lost his job just because he had a fake degree is misleading. He lied to his employer in order to obtain his post. He was sacked, I have no doubt, for dishonesty.
To run a school?
What the hell are they, or rather, what the hell is every other NZ school doing that they need 48 servers! 4 to do the work, 20 to handle licensing and the other 24 to handle patch management and anti-virus updates?
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I shouldn't have to cripple my applications to avoid this, I should have the option to turn just this new 'feature' off whilst allowing my apps to continue to work properly. And yes I should be surprised - outraged even - that applications will collect my data to be "used arbitrarily including selling it to other interested parties". I should be able to disable that.
He was nothing of the sort. He deliberately established a pagan religion based around the old Germanic gods because he couldn't control the Catholics.
School is the opposite of work. At work I am paid for providing value to my employer. At school the school provides the child with value: and education, in other-words the exact opposite.
Read the article or even just the many comments above yours? Perhaps you would feel more comfortable reading Digg?
I don't think it's so much a case of it not deserving to be compared but rather the comparison is irrelevant. You might just as well compare it to a microwave oven and complain that you can't use it to re-heat food. The important points about this device are: - it's as Free as it's possible to make such a device. - it's a handheld (so a comparison with a netbook is also irrelevant). - it has frickin' lasers. - it's cheap- well within my impulse-buy limits. I've bought one both to support "Free" and because I've wanted a pocketable Lisp machine for a while now. I
Perhaps if you read some of the many posts above yours before making your smart remarks then you'd know. And not all of us on /. are mere consumers, some of us actually like to know how stuff works, be able to learn from it and improve it if we feel like. Which is the essence of the Freedom being talked about here. But as someone who just likes to look at the shiney you wouldn't appreciate that freedom. (And you're too ignorant to appreciate that the whole of the internet and the WWW were built around those principles).
The point of it is:
I've already ordered one because I plan on using it to hack Lisp. Don't care about wifi or ethernet as I have an iPhone and a Macbook Air for when I want to be a consumer.
...to a problem that doesn't exist. Esperanto anyone? They'd have more luck if they'd implemented Tolkien's Dwarven Runes.
Everything I need is on Slashdot. It is the entire Interwebs.
I have Civ IV on the PC (Steam) and if I want it on the Mac I have to pay for it again :(
I bought Civ IV for the PC through Steam and if I want to play it on my Mac, through Steam.... I have to pay again!
...if you've got nothing to hide...
...what I want to know is why none of Apple's executives are white, middle-classed, English, over 6', fat and post on slashdot under the name CountBrass?!?! Every company I've ever worked for had at least one!
...we never see similar questions being asked of our national sports teams? It's always struck me that their composition is far, far off what it should be if it properly represented our nation's ethnic diversity. Or perhaps it's that, sensibly, our sports teams are selected by ability and not colour or creed?
Some things deserve a permanent stigma: in this case how can you seriously expect he would continue to act in a role that requires significant trust when he's proven he can't be trusted?
It's right there in the summary "...installed a back-door program on computers — including some on federal government networks...". 'Installed' not 'was capable of installing'. Basic literacy ftw?
You're suffering from the 'modern' disease that everyone has to 'succeed' and we should dumb down to the lowest common denominator. When I learnt to programme it was using the school's Commodore Pet. I didn't have a computer at home at all but that didn't stop me, because I was interested enough to make the effort.
...whether you were being humorous or are just a complete moron. I'm going to go with moron. The question was testing your ability to understand the question (it's not about a song), criticaly think (you could even disagree with the question's premise) and to then express yourself coherently. You clearely fell at the first hurdle (you couldn't even understand the question) and the test served it's purpose in sorting the wheat from the chaff.
I was quite amused when I perused this article because my excellent reading skills allowed me to appreciate how stupid they are.
I wouldn't feel bad. My personal theory is that when taking part in conversations like this it's the verbal part of our brain, not the usual writing part, that's used. Hence mistakes like writing "it's" when you mean "its" and vice-versa and "there" or "their" or "they're" because to your verbal brain they sound the same and therefore are. People's use of "cuz" and "lol" and "wtf" in sentences is also explained by my theory. I suspect they talk that way as well, they're just morons.
Your problem is that you're an eternal student. A stack of advanced degrees philosophising about the sex life of the inside of a ping-pong ball are indeed worthless. But what makes you unemployable is your lack of experience and that you have never learned to work. It's that lack rather than the fact you have those degrees that's the problem. Employers are going to suspect that all you'll be an architecture astronaut and never actually deliver. On time. and to budget. Because that's not what students do and that's all the experience you have. Perhaps your expectations have been too high? Did you expect to walk in to a senior position just because you'd been a student for most of your life? That's as ludicrous as if I expected to walk into a Professorship at Oxford without a stack of academic qualifications. Does that mean my industry experience is worthless? Of course not. What makes me valuable is that I have both academic and industry experience. Just because you chose to follow and unbalanced career as a permanent student doesn't mean all academic qualifications are worthless. You were just unwise. So either stick with academia where your experience has some value or suck it up and start from the bottom.
He single handedly lost the case according to the article. He knowingly gave false estimates to BSkyB the only point on which the court upheld BSB's complaints and as a result EDS lost the case. It appears the court decided this largely on the basis of his dishonest account of obtaining a degree (given in court under oath). So to say he lost his job just because he had a fake degree is misleading. He lied to his employer in order to obtain his post. He was sacked, I have no doubt, for dishonesty.
FOSS is built on top of a closed ecosystem: I'm not aware of many Intel or AMD cpus being FOSS.
To run a school? What the hell are they, or rather, what the hell is every other NZ school doing that they need 48 servers! 4 to do the work, 20 to handle licensing and the other 24 to handle patch management and anti-virus updates?
No, no, no. If you really want to piss people off give the money to Derek Smart PhD(Fake).