They might not employ children in coal mines or cotton mills but there are plenty of other places for explotation of child labour, the clothing industry comes to mind. Do a little research on the sweat shops and clothing factories in industrialized nations.
Children rarely have any choice in the running of their lives, under your system if a parent wanted to pull their eight year old out of school and send him or her to work eight hours a day then this would be a good thing????
Well that was a nice little rant that skated very close to being completely off topic.
I'm not going to get into a debate about the benefits of home schooling vs institutional schooling - hell yes I am. Home schooling may be good for your kids but it sure as hell does not meet the needs of most kids. Not only is some one untrained in education presenting courses on subjects of which they may very well have little knowledge of besides whats in the notes set by the governing body, but you are also denying the kids the opportunity to interact with a wide range of different social groups.
Also do you actually know why they had to impose Age restrictions on employment? Do a little reading on the Coal Mines and Mills back in the nineteenth century. It is not a good thing for children - and thats what they are - to be working. Hence the need for Social Services "snooping" as you so objectivly put it.
Lastly college is not for everyone, I myself didn't finish high-school, thats why here in Australia we have alternatives known as TAFE, which run Trainesships and Aprenticeships. However even they provide an education outside of "Use this wrench on this bolt".
When I was going to school, I went to a tough high school (well by Australian standards anyway, no metal detectors or anything). Being one of only five anglo-saxon people in the school, I soon learnt how to interact with all of the different groups.
Sure I had my problems, but I worked them out by standing my ground, and not letting anyone push me around. This is something that the kids who get pushed to the outer need to understand. Don't let anyone push you around because you are different. Trust me I learnt this the hard way, being the tallest kid in school at year eight, a book worm and having lived over seas for much of my child hood really gave me a whole heap of baggage to deal with.
Down here(Australia), if you have an MP3 on your machine ripped from a CD then you are a criminal. We don't even have basic fair use rights like the yanks do.
In fact a local music organisation is trying to introduce a levy on CD-ROMS and so on by dangling the carrot of actually bringing in fair use(although heavily restricted of course)
No the first twenty replies would have gone along the lines of "KDE? Why would you use that Gnome is way better" "No its not" "Yes it is" "Well you suck" and so on and so on.
Never underestimate the geek ability to concentrate on the minute at the expense of the bigger issue.
Just RTFA and I cringed when I saw the bit about the instant sharing of files and images to the entire group. Crap like this is going to play havoc with business networks.
Also it seems to me that MS is getting a little confused, aren't they meant to be sucking up to the RIAA? If so whats with the music sharing?
Umm Palladium has been designed with DRM and its ilk in mind, it will be one of its core functions. It is also going to be used to attack MS's OS competition such as Linux, *BSD and so on.
My main beef with it, besides the whole big brother aspect is the fact that MS is going to be in control of what software can run on the Palladium enabled systems. Oh yeah I can imagine Linux being allowed to run right there.
A) MS Does not make superior products, this has been proven time and again. Through a combination of luck, dodgy business practices and the general IT ignorance of the general population they have achieved almost complete domination of the retail OS market.
B) Palladium is nothing like a magnetic strip on a book. Palladium is more like having a three hundred pound gorilla following you around, telling you what you can and can't read.
Trusted computing and Palladium is nothing more than an attempt by its proponents to lock out those who want to be able to use their computers to their fullest capacity.
Theres a couple of reasons, the first is pure geek - "I bet I can make my box into a complete entertainment system" the second is also pure geek "My Linux Entertainment Unit is better than your Linux Entertainment unit".
Seriously though competition is good. With different groups competiting for the same market you can be sure that the cool features will be coming thick and fast.
Thats right and when you employ me you are agreeing to start and finish times. If I had to continually work long hours because of management stuff ups then hell yes I expect to get something more.
If the problem is with the manager you and several other co-workers need a chat with his boss or HR.
Its been a long time since you were a front-line grunt hasn't it. In most organisations, if you complain about your boss screwing things up, the only response you'll get is "Like it or lump it", and not only that but it will get back to your boss and then you can kiss any promotions good bye.
The pledge contained the words "Under God". This can be taken as condoning Christianity over any other religion. That is un-constitutional under your constitutions seperation of church and state. Get over it. I mean how would you like it if the pledge had said "Under Allah" instead.
Well he should try dealing with PHB's who have some vague idea of what they want but can't explain it. Then when the project is 90% complete turn around and say "Thats nothing like what I wanted" even though it matches the original specs to the letter.
I think mr Journalist had better have a talk to his IT procurement committee before he goes off half cocked. Usually these committees are staffed, not by end-users and techs, but by middle management types whos closest interaction with a computer is getting their arse kicked on any number of first person shooters.
While I sympathise with end users of shitty software (I too am forced to use Windows now and then), I take offence when they start blaming the techs themselves for the problems of an entire package. Its like blaming the carpenter because the building committee decided to only use styro-foam in the foundations of the building.
Overkill for the same price is overkill no matter which way you look at it. It all comes down to resource management, I would rather keep the CD-Rs for when I have to do major backups rather than waste all that space.
Floppies will always have their place in any IT shop. Apart from anything else what else are you going to use for servers that don't come with CD-ROMS?
AS someone working in a Regional TV station I would love to be able to switch our production facilities away from the MS based systems we are using now and move them to a Linux based system.
I am starting to write something for this myself but I would like to know how close we are to actually achieving this aim. I have looked at several of the packages on offer such as KDENLIVE and Cinelerra
but none of them are what I would call studio ready.
What a bloody stupid idea. Floppies are still usefull in any number of situations, from Sneakernet situations to creating boot disks and rescue disks.
The comment made about floppies being an antique technology completely misses the point, sometimes technologies hang around because they are actually usefull. I mean, burning a couple of documents onto a CD-R is like using USB for your mouse or keyboard - complete overkill.
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...and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork.
Why are they looking for Jews?
They might not employ children in coal mines or cotton mills but there are plenty of other places for explotation of child labour, the clothing industry comes to mind. Do a little research on the sweat shops and clothing factories in industrialized nations.
Children rarely have any choice in the running of their lives, under your system if a parent wanted to pull their eight year old out of school and send him or her to work eight hours a day then this would be a good thing????
Well that was a nice little rant that skated very close to being completely off topic.
I'm not going to get into a debate about the benefits of home schooling vs institutional schooling - hell yes I am. Home schooling may be good for your kids but it sure as hell does not meet the needs of most kids. Not only is some one untrained in education presenting courses on subjects of which they may very well have little knowledge of besides whats in the notes set by the governing body, but you are also denying the kids the opportunity to interact with a wide range of different social groups.
Also do you actually know why they had to impose Age restrictions on employment? Do a little reading on the Coal Mines and Mills back in the nineteenth century. It is not a good thing for children - and thats what they are - to be working. Hence the need for Social Services "snooping" as you so objectivly put it.
Lastly college is not for everyone, I myself didn't finish high-school, thats why here in Australia we have alternatives known as TAFE, which run Trainesships and Aprenticeships. However even they provide an education outside of "Use this wrench on this bolt".
When I was going to school, I went to a tough high school (well by Australian standards anyway, no metal detectors or anything). Being one of only five anglo-saxon people in the school, I soon learnt how to interact with all of the different groups.
Sure I had my problems, but I worked them out by standing my ground, and not letting anyone push me around. This is something that the kids who get pushed to the outer need to understand. Don't let anyone push you around because you are different. Trust me I learnt this the hard way, being the tallest kid in school at year eight, a book worm and having lived over seas for much of my child hood really gave me a whole heap of baggage to deal with.
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Gotta remember to get one of those cannon thingies for next valentines day. Turn it on at just the right time and whammo. ;)
Down here(Australia), if you have an MP3 on your machine ripped from a CD then you are a criminal. We don't even have basic fair use rights like the yanks do.
In fact a local music organisation is trying to introduce a levy on CD-ROMS and so on by dangling the carrot of actually bringing in fair use(although heavily restricted of course)
No the first twenty replies would have gone along the lines of "KDE? Why would you use that Gnome is way better" "No its not" "Yes it is" "Well you suck" and so on and so on.
Never underestimate the geek ability to concentrate on the minute at the expense of the bigger issue.
Just RTFA and I cringed when I saw the bit about the instant sharing of files and images to the entire group. Crap like this is going to play havoc with business networks.
Also it seems to me that MS is getting a little confused, aren't they meant to be sucking up to the RIAA? If so whats with the music sharing?
Umm Palladium has been designed with DRM and its ilk in mind, it will be one of its core functions. It is also going to be used to attack MS's OS competition such as Linux, *BSD and so on.
My main beef with it, besides the whole big brother aspect is the fact that MS is going to be in control of what software can run on the Palladium enabled systems. Oh yeah I can imagine Linux being allowed to run right there.
A) MS Does not make superior products, this has been proven time and again. Through a combination of luck, dodgy business practices and the general IT ignorance of the general population they have achieved almost complete domination of the retail OS market.
B) Palladium is nothing like a magnetic strip on a book. Palladium is more like having a three hundred pound gorilla following you around, telling you what you can and can't read.
Trusted computing and Palladium is nothing more than an attempt by its proponents to lock out those who want to be able to use their computers to their fullest capacity.
Theres a couple of reasons, the first is pure geek - "I bet I can make my box into a complete entertainment system" the second is also pure geek "My Linux Entertainment Unit is better than your Linux Entertainment unit".
Seriously though competition is good. With different groups competiting for the same market you can be sure that the cool features will be coming thick and fast.
Time = money
Thats right and when you employ me you are agreeing to start and finish times. If I had to continually work long hours because of management stuff ups then hell yes I expect to get something more.
If the problem is with the manager you and several other co-workers need a chat with his boss or HR.
Its been a long time since you were a front-line grunt hasn't it. In most organisations, if you complain about your boss screwing things up, the only response you'll get is "Like it or lump it", and not only that but it will get back to your boss and then you can kiss any promotions good bye.
See what happens when you "Embrace and Extend"?
When I was a lad we had to use 300 baud, and sleep in cardboard box on tip.
The pledge contained the words "Under God". This can be taken as condoning Christianity over any other religion. That is un-constitutional under your constitutions seperation of church and state. Get over it. I mean how would you like it if the pledge had said "Under Allah" instead.
Ummm from my basic understanding, Linus has retained copyright on the kernel, therefore he is the one to take any legal action.
Under GPL you retain copyright.
They'll probably end up DDOSing the entire Eastern Seaboard. Either that or somebodies home page from their wedding.
Should we un-write the history of Microsoft?
Can I, ooooh please let me do it
Well he should try dealing with PHB's who have some vague idea of what they want but can't explain it. Then when the project is 90% complete turn around and say "Thats nothing like what I wanted" even though it matches the original specs to the letter.
I think mr Journalist had better have a talk to his IT procurement committee before he goes off half cocked. Usually these committees are staffed, not by end-users and techs, but by middle management types whos closest interaction with a computer is getting their arse kicked on any number of first person shooters.
While I sympathise with end users of shitty software (I too am forced to use Windows now and then), I take offence when they start blaming the techs themselves for the problems of an entire package. Its like blaming the carpenter because the building committee decided to only use styro-foam in the foundations of the building.
Thanks, I'll have a look at it
Dammit when I write a cheap plug I should at least get the damn link right. GLNLinear there thats better.
Overkill for the same price is overkill no matter which way you look at it. It all comes down to resource management, I would rather keep the CD-Rs for when I have to do major backups rather than waste all that space.
Floppies will always have their place in any IT shop. Apart from anything else what else are you going to use for servers that don't come with CD-ROMS?
AS someone working in a Regional TV station I would love to be able to switch our production facilities away from the MS based systems we are using now and move them to a Linux based system.
I am starting to write something for this myself but I would like to know how close we are to actually achieving this aim. I have looked at several of the packages on offer such as KDENLIVE and Cinelerra but none of them are what I would call studio ready.
Well I keep hoping.
What a bloody stupid idea. Floppies are still usefull in any number of situations, from Sneakernet situations to creating boot disks and rescue disks.
The comment made about floppies being an antique technology completely misses the point, sometimes technologies hang around because they are actually usefull. I mean, burning a couple of documents onto a CD-R is like using USB for your mouse or keyboard - complete overkill.