That's also a good point that I left out, that there are definitely some fields that are not in demand. I wouldn't call CS a vocational degree, at least at some schools. At my school it was basically a math degree, although you could skew it towards software engineering depending on your electives. But your earning potential coming out of college will certainly be affected by the field you choose. I'm pretty sure your earnings compared to those in the same field without a college degree will be better, but if you were promised riches on an absolute scale for a degree in 17th century philosophy, you were definitely lied to.
In a way, what was promised probably used to be true, but not because college was such a great training ground. If only the relatively gifted went to college, say, 50 years ago, then they would probably emerge to find a creative career in a respected field waiting for them. Now that any monkey with middle class parents can bum their way through, the group of college graduates is no longer self selecting for those who are talented enough to secure the things they've been promised.
Now, I don't think this contradicts your point, but it may explain it. I think people may have mistaken the self selection in the last generation for some magical property endowed by the act of going to college. But I will contradict you enough to say that SOME new college graduates do find that those expectations are met. If you're at the top of your class, intelligent, and actually good at what you do, you're never not wanted. It may take a bit of legwork to find someone who's willing to pay for that, but they're always out there, because a lot of people are really really bad at what they do.
That's true. California citizens probably won't notice the new behind-the-scenes checks between every government agency in existence the next time they renew their licenses.
Given that the PS2 was still the best selling console on the market under a year ago, and sold more than the PS3 in December, I would have to guess that they are still making them. Heck, it's the only console on the market that can compete with the Wii on price.
Haha, I'm sure $100 seems like a lot of money when you are living on frozen pizzas in your mom's basement, but it really is a pittance to someone with a decent job. I usually spend that about once a week at a nice restaurant.
I spend that every couple of days at a nice restaurant, and then again on entertainment. Do I win?
Oh wait, you're bragging about salary on the interweb. Guess we both lose.
I assumed the same thing, but I've been told that this is not true. DTV is actually a completely different part of the spectrum, but they use the channel alias built into the DTV protocol to map the new spectrum back to the old number system.
Is this a joke? Sure, you're not going to be super healthy eating smaller amounts of bad foods, but if you take in less calories than you use, you're going to lose weight...
Every new operating system seems to run a little slower than its predecessor, but that's just a byproduct of all the new functionality the OS is providing me.
Good lord. I try to stay out of the OS wars, but this is just ridiculously naive (and probably paid, from the tone of the whole post). The "couple extra CPU cycles" are being used to restrict your fair use rights. And provide you a new, slower multimedia API, so they can more easily restrict your fair use rights. The new architecture is so screwed, your network speed drops by half when you're playing back audio. There are arguments you can make for Vista, but yours are completely ridiculous.
For desktop users, this might be true. But for businesses of any size, it's absolutely not that simple. There's usually a strict testing cycle before new versions are deployed to internal machines, because the IT department doesn't want to bother supporting stuff that's incompatible with other required software, or introduces new bugs, or any of the other hundreds of things that can go wrong with a new version.
Well, right. My assumption, of course, was that Windows wouldn't do that.
But to add a little more detail, the XO doesn't even show Linux source code. The XO runs on top of Red Hat, in the sense that it uses their distro and strips it way down. But all the apps the user interacts with are custom apps written in (I believe) Python. That's the source code you can modify at will. You can't install any old Linux app on the XO, it has to be specially written. So it really makes no difference what's running under the hood, except for what runs it best.
From what I've read, Negroponte would in no way be interested in Windows, even if it were donated for free. Every part of the XO is designed to aid collaboration, and understanding of what's going on under the hood. There's a hard-wired button next to the volume that pops up the source code for the current application, for chrissake. The idea is that the kids can use the computer, AND jump in and make changes, and learn in the process. It's not just a cheap laptop, it's a new computing environment. A lot of the value is in the custom software. Installing Windows would be as damaging to that effort as installing a straight Ubuntu distribution.
In the first case, you'll probably find that the person wasn't notified beforehand. If they inform you beforehand of a charge associated with dining at their restaurant, and you sit down, order, and eat, you're entering into a contract with them. The law takes a dim view of springing unusual clauses of a contract on someone after the fact, which is why they need to inform you beforehand. But provided they do so, it's no longer optional. And in fact, they've told you it's not optional. You can't ignore the one clause of the agreement just because you don't consent to it. Your option is to choose to eat there, or not.
If they inform you of the policy before you eat, either verbally or through some note on the menu or visible sign near the entrance, what you're doing is technically theft.
Possibly true, but one thing that can help speed that development is access to information. Rapid information transfer has a huge influence in cultural development.
I have to imagine that there's a memory pooling solution that would let them avoid fragmentation without having to load an entire level as a single memory block.
Since the point of the patent system is to encourage innovation, it should be limited to things that take at least a bit of research and capital expenditure to produce. "Flash of inspiration" type ideas where you just combine two existing things fail the obviousness test for a good reason. How much effort do you think went into putting a mini-game over a load screen? I doubt they spent hundreds of hours researching possible answers.
Nope. Oil is necessary for so many non-energy components of industrial manufacturing that our entire way of life will collapse when we hit serious shortages. But I'm sure you'll take comfort in the "free market" when you're plowing your front yard for planting and eating the food you grow out of hand-carved wooden bowls by candlelight.
What I'm curious about is, how does it know when you're infringing? I.E. if I go watch episodes of TV shows at any of the major network websites, how does AT&T decide that this instance of a copyright file is legit? Also, how do they justify stopping me from transfering a copy of a digital file which I own from one machine to another (not LAN connected)? Identification is only the first step. Policy awareness is a much harder problem, and one it sounds like they haven't given the first thought to.
Why's that, exactly? TrueCrypt doesn't always create a hidden volume, it's up to the user when they set up the encrypted file. In fact, creating a hidden volume costs a fair bit of disk space, as you need to fill up a decent amount of the "main" volume to make it look well-used, and then you're blocked from changing it. All that extra work isn't worth it to someone just looking for some decent security, so you can plausibly say, "well officer, I know about the hidden volume function, but it just seemed like too much hassle, so no, I don't use that".
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That's also a good point that I left out, that there are definitely some fields that are not in demand. I wouldn't call CS a vocational degree, at least at some schools. At my school it was basically a math degree, although you could skew it towards software engineering depending on your electives. But your earning potential coming out of college will certainly be affected by the field you choose. I'm pretty sure your earnings compared to those in the same field without a college degree will be better, but if you were promised riches on an absolute scale for a degree in 17th century philosophy, you were definitely lied to.
In a way, what was promised probably used to be true, but not because college was such a great training ground. If only the relatively gifted went to college, say, 50 years ago, then they would probably emerge to find a creative career in a respected field waiting for them. Now that any monkey with middle class parents can bum their way through, the group of college graduates is no longer self selecting for those who are talented enough to secure the things they've been promised.
Now, I don't think this contradicts your point, but it may explain it. I think people may have mistaken the self selection in the last generation for some magical property endowed by the act of going to college. But I will contradict you enough to say that SOME new college graduates do find that those expectations are met. If you're at the top of your class, intelligent, and actually good at what you do, you're never not wanted. It may take a bit of legwork to find someone who's willing to pay for that, but they're always out there, because a lot of people are really really bad at what they do.
That's true. California citizens probably won't notice the new behind-the-scenes checks between every government agency in existence the next time they renew their licenses.
Given that the PS2 was still the best selling console on the market under a year ago, and sold more than the PS3 in December, I would have to guess that they are still making them. Heck, it's the only console on the market that can compete with the Wii on price.
Oh wait, you're bragging about salary on the interweb. Guess we both lose.
I assumed the same thing, but I've been told that this is not true. DTV is actually a completely different part of the spectrum, but they use the channel alias built into the DTV protocol to map the new spectrum back to the old number system.
Is this a joke? Sure, you're not going to be super healthy eating smaller amounts of bad foods, but if you take in less calories than you use, you're going to lose weight...
Firefox has a "old and broken" mode too...
Except that the GPL is unenforceable without copyrights...
The screen downgrade thing is only when you're actively using a DRMed file, but the network degrading by half when you play sound is always.
For desktop users, this might be true. But for businesses of any size, it's absolutely not that simple. There's usually a strict testing cycle before new versions are deployed to internal machines, because the IT department doesn't want to bother supporting stuff that's incompatible with other required software, or introduces new bugs, or any of the other hundreds of things that can go wrong with a new version.
Well, right. My assumption, of course, was that Windows wouldn't do that.
But to add a little more detail, the XO doesn't even show Linux source code. The XO runs on top of Red Hat, in the sense that it uses their distro and strips it way down. But all the apps the user interacts with are custom apps written in (I believe) Python. That's the source code you can modify at will. You can't install any old Linux app on the XO, it has to be specially written. So it really makes no difference what's running under the hood, except for what runs it best.
In the car market, Toyota doesn't own the other 90%?
From what I've read, Negroponte would in no way be interested in Windows, even if it were donated for free. Every part of the XO is designed to aid collaboration, and understanding of what's going on under the hood. There's a hard-wired button next to the volume that pops up the source code for the current application, for chrissake. The idea is that the kids can use the computer, AND jump in and make changes, and learn in the process. It's not just a cheap laptop, it's a new computing environment. A lot of the value is in the custom software. Installing Windows would be as damaging to that effort as installing a straight Ubuntu distribution.
In the first case, you'll probably find that the person wasn't notified beforehand. If they inform you beforehand of a charge associated with dining at their restaurant, and you sit down, order, and eat, you're entering into a contract with them. The law takes a dim view of springing unusual clauses of a contract on someone after the fact, which is why they need to inform you beforehand. But provided they do so, it's no longer optional. And in fact, they've told you it's not optional. You can't ignore the one clause of the agreement just because you don't consent to it. Your option is to choose to eat there, or not.
If they inform you of the policy before you eat, either verbally or through some note on the menu or visible sign near the entrance, what you're doing is technically theft.
Possibly true, but one thing that can help speed that development is access to information. Rapid information transfer has a huge influence in cultural development.
I have to imagine that there's a memory pooling solution that would let them avoid fragmentation without having to load an entire level as a single memory block.
Since the point of the patent system is to encourage innovation, it should be limited to things that take at least a bit of research and capital expenditure to produce. "Flash of inspiration" type ideas where you just combine two existing things fail the obviousness test for a good reason. How much effort do you think went into putting a mini-game over a load screen? I doubt they spent hundreds of hours researching possible answers.
Nope. Oil is necessary for so many non-energy components of industrial manufacturing that our entire way of life will collapse when we hit serious shortages. But I'm sure you'll take comfort in the "free market" when you're plowing your front yard for planting and eating the food you grow out of hand-carved wooden bowls by candlelight.
What I'm curious about is, how does it know when you're infringing? I.E. if I go watch episodes of TV shows at any of the major network websites, how does AT&T decide that this instance of a copyright file is legit? Also, how do they justify stopping me from transfering a copy of a digital file which I own from one machine to another (not LAN connected)? Identification is only the first step. Policy awareness is a much harder problem, and one it sounds like they haven't given the first thought to.
Why's that, exactly? TrueCrypt doesn't always create a hidden volume, it's up to the user when they set up the encrypted file. In fact, creating a hidden volume costs a fair bit of disk space, as you need to fill up a decent amount of the "main" volume to make it look well-used, and then you're blocked from changing it. All that extra work isn't worth it to someone just looking for some decent security, so you can plausibly say, "well officer, I know about the hidden volume function, but it just seemed like too much hassle, so no, I don't use that".
What about non-native speakers who learn English from someone who writes in leet-speak and SMS messages? It's discrimination, I say!