I didn't see the word 'tuition' once in the article.
Tuition hikes have a great deal more to do with a lack of state funding than on-campus telephone usage. Some states cover(ed) 3/4 of college tuition for state residents. States are reallocating their budgets to provide social services in place of federal government programs that have been gutted to shore up money for federal tax breaks.
My state also relies on legalized gambling in the form of a state lottery to provide small scholarships to students. It works pretty well. Desperate and uneducated people buy between $5 and $20 in lottery tickets weekly which, in turn, pays for white surburban kids to go to college. Its a wonderful example of the lower and middle classes working together, which is good because neither one will be seeing much in the way of the aforementioned tax breaks.
U.S. diplomatic efforts with North Korea have been set up to fail...I'm not sure why...
Absent From the Korea Talks: Bush's Hard-Liner
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS (NYT) 1215 words Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 3 , Column 1
Editors' Note Appended
ABSTRACT - John R Bolton, under secretary of state for arms control, was barred by North Korea from participating in sensitive talks last week after he called North Korea 'hellish nightmare'; incident highlights his role in his 27 months in office, during which he has shattered diplomatic niceties and stirred anger within ranks; supporters see him as truth teller and policy innovator who speaks his mind, even at risk of upsetting diplomatic strategies; critics seem him as policy zealot who runs roughshod over rules of diplomacy and undercuts his colleagues; on at least three occasions intelligence services have stepped in to quiet him, in one case saying testimony he was preparing was unverifiable; photo (M)
Also, from a left-leaning website referencing the same article (I didn't want to pay for the story)...
After Bolton delivered a cataract of invective aimed at the country and its leadership ("a hellish nightmare," he called it) the North Koreans shot back, calling Bolton "human scum."
and
Asked by the New York Times what the administration's policy on North Korea is, Bolton "strode over to a bookshelf, pulled off a volume and slapped it on the table. It was called 'The End of North Korea.'" "'That,' he said, 'is our policy.'"
I was writing a thesis on the PC, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And then, like, half of my thesis was gone. And I was, like heh. It devoured my thesis. It was a really good thesis. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer.
Yes. 96 Watt Hour batteries tend to run longer than 50 Watt Hour batteries. The Dell's default BIOS settings also cut the screen brightness by half when its unplugged.
I agree that specs are not the iBook's strong point.
Its a nice little package. An Inspiron could have even better specs for the same price if Dell somehow wired the parts together without a case. I wouldn't call that progress, though. Some would...
I crashed to the desktop when a video event was triggered or I put away the PDA. I'm going to try the new Catalyst drivers. With a Radeon 9800 128MB, Athlon 1600XP, and 1GB of RAM, the game is damn slow. It must be the processor...
I agree with the comments on the fansub community improving. Bittorrenting unlicensed anime is my new favorite pastime.
However, the official GITS:SAC release from Bandai isn't available in Region 1 (U.S, Canada) until July 27th. Which region are you in?
If you are watching Hong Kong Silvers (argghh, matey!), you are watching either a Japanese to Chinese to English quickie translation or a fansub from another group. If you see words to the effect of, "If you paid for this, you got ripped off!", in the beginning or during an interstitial, you should get the idea.
"...and how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?"
or most entertainment technologies for that matter...Japanese companies are far more willing to adopt new technologies than American companies. U.S. companies want to wring every last red cent they can out of existing technologies. Does anyone remember the fight to get broadcasters to adopt HDTV? HDTV was on the books since the mid-80s. The networks bitched about the equipment costs and wanted to cram more channels into the new bandwidth made available through a side-effect from HDTV called narrowcasting. Ultimately, the government stepped in, and said start working on HDTV.
On a side note, I'm now damn confused about cellular data service. I was looking forward to U.S. adoption of UMTS-enabled phones so that when I went on a trip to Europe next August I could get broadband. My hopes were pinned on ATT Wireless fulfilling its contract with DoCoMo by rolling out W-CDMA and UMTS in four American cities. Why is DoCoMo using OFCDM? Any help on this subject is appreciated...
I'll bet many of the survivors of Sept. 11 2001 made it through because of cell phone communications.
That and landlines. I remember reading that it was the radios that NYC police and safety workers had that didn't work from within the towers. I'm not sure if their request for new communications equipment, placed before 9/11, was ever fulfilled.
What are the realities of life? If the government should pick from a list of, let's say, murder, famine, and disease, which ones would you support?
Usually the government is trying to protect our way of life or alliances with other nations. None of the wars that the US was involved in over the past 100 years, with the exception of Pearl Harbor, took place on American soil. At the local government level, police do not serve as your bodyguard, but can arrest someone after they have robbed or murdered you. Hopefully, the punishment that person receives serves to discourage others.
Forgot where I read it...maybe it was here, but the spokesman for an Indian accounting firm was describing the many benefits that relying on Indian labor would bring to Americans. He said that Americans would be able to sit on the beach all day, sipping drinks, while Indians took care of the work.
I work at a state university. My department recently hired a graduate from the masters in software engineering program to work on our web-based reservation system. Strangely enough, he's had to dig back into his tech course materials from India to remember database design.
Wow, between a 15 pound Les Paul, active pickups with 9 volt batteries, wireless receiver with batteries, and one of these devices, also with batteries, you could jump off an amp and go right through the stage floor...amazing.
I don't trust computers not because I am ignorant of what they can do because I know exactly what they are able to do and how easy it would be to rig an election.
So do others. Diebold even employs a computer programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.
I haven't seen Iria:Zeiram, but its disingenuous to compare a serious animated series based on a movie to funny, satirical cartoon shorts from the 30s that were used to provide breaks between movies.
Part of it also comes down to deadlines. Looney Tunes were created as new movies came out. Zeiram was in production for months. However, when you compare 1930s Looney Tunes to modern TV quality anime, such as Pokemon or even Rurouni Kenshin, the Looney Tunes art is higher quality and the animation is far more fluid. You have to remember that their competitor was Disney, which you didn't bring up as an example of bad animation for some reason;)
I agree with a lot of your post, however. Plot-wise, Pokemon is the closest thing to the toy marketing scam shows of the early 80s, which, ironically, were produced by many of the same anime artists before their skills improved. Scooby Doo was a prime time comedy, so its hard for me to fault it for not having a deep storyline. The repeated celebrity appearances in the later seasons annoy me, though.
The good news is that computer generated backgrounds and other tools are allowing both sides of the ocean to concentrate more on the animation with what little deadline they have. Pretty soon, we won't be forced to watch action faked by endless, uneccessary banter in American cartoons ("Oh, I'm hit! Are your hurt! Are you sure you're okay! He's getting away! Where'd he go?") or still frame directional lines and wildtakes in every Japanese anime scene. A lot of the recent fansubbed TV anime that I download have openings with windblown hair. I think they're showing off.
The Windows XP is in beta and has been released as an ISO to members of MSDN. Unfortunately, not being a member, I had to patch my uncle's computer over a 44K modem connection last weekend. Fortuantely, it had SP1 already.
I hate to make this a "me too" post, but I can share an experience.
I interviewed with a VP from Wal-Mart (don't ask) the semester that I graduated from college. I answered the "tough questions" fairly well.
Him: "Someone who's been working at the store 20 years is going to come up to you and say, 'Why did you get this job instead of me?' My jiu-jitsu answer: "You are so good at your job. I don't think anyone else could fill your shoes if you got promoted. Me? They just brought me in. I'm going to need your experience."
Slimy, I know. He liked it.
When it was time to ask him questions, I went for the jugular.
Me: "Seeing as how your total revenue is already over $200 billion (note: I don't remember exactly --it's damn high), how will you attract new investors who are looking for short-term stock price gains? I mean, you mentioned that even your training managers work 50 hours/week. Do you expect that I would eventually need to work 80 hours/week?"
He stammered and was flustered...
Him: "I just...just finished a new schedule. Its a 6 day schedule."
Me: "Oh, I see, a staggered schedule with a different day off each week."
He didn't elaborate any further.
As it was my first webconference interview, I made faces when he was speaking to his camera (he was posed nicely; I looked like I was living in a fishbowl). This wasn't too bright. There was a slight delay in the video signal and his horrified expression when he looked down at his monitor spoke volumes. Needless to say, I didn't get the job, but Wal-Mart corporate did buy back a boat load of stock the next week. Also, recent news from Oregon shows that workers have worked unpaid overtime for the past several years.
The last company I worked for engineered a benchmark test before the company's new RAID SCSI host card was completed.
The card was benchmarked against a RAID Ultra SCSI LVD card from a German competitor named ICP Vortec. Even though the new card was in development, they expected it to beat the Vortec. It didn't...until they removed most of the Vortec's components and replaced them with parts from a much slower (and inexpensive) card that wasn't even considered a serious competitor. These benchmarks were used in advertisements, entire phrases stating the superiority of the product were co-opped from press releases by lazy magazine columnists (which is sadly common in most journalism nowadays), and sent to companies requesting further information. On a somewhat related note, a claim on the product sheets for the aforementioned product line that the product had been Windows certified ended up costing the company a $10K fine from MS and had to be destroyed.
I guess that ultimately it doesn't matter. The owner sold the company to the largest competitor.
This will only work if the certification process in itself does not become an industry.
No MCT-style trainer certifications, either. Those people are whores who jump from one product to another and don't give a damn about any of it. As a matter of fact, a co-worker recently went to Novell CNA training where the instructor said that he hated Novell and preferred Microsoft but couldn't care less about either as he was an Mac user.
Say I later start a company to do the stuff I've learned for profit. Would I risk committing a crime by using my personal use version? I think not.
Would I be inclined to buy the software I know and love? I think so.
I think that's a great attitude. That said, a company that created the CG sequences in Blade II and some other movies used a cracked copy of Maya, according to a guest speaker at Full Sail over a year ago. Why she mentioned this is beyond me.
A company that designed the Sky Mall catalogs (found on some airlines) had a single copy of Photoshop that they ran over a network, one computer at a time. On the tax humor side, this company hid funiture and equipment for another business when that business was audited, and had my friend (an intern at the time) stand over IRS auditors with his arms folded to intimidate them with their company was audited.
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I didn't see the word 'tuition' once in the article.
Tuition hikes have a great deal more to do with a lack of state funding than on-campus telephone usage. Some states cover(ed) 3/4 of college tuition for state residents. States are reallocating their budgets to provide social services in place of federal government programs that have been gutted to shore up money for federal tax breaks.
My state also relies on legalized gambling in the form of a state lottery to provide small scholarships to students. It works pretty well. Desperate and uneducated people buy between $5 and $20 in lottery tickets weekly which, in turn, pays for white surburban kids to go to college. Its a wonderful example of the lower and middle classes working together, which is good because neither one will be seeing much in the way of the aforementioned tax breaks.
U.S. diplomatic efforts with North Korea have been set up to fail...I'm not sure why...
Also, from a left-leaning website referencing the same article (I didn't want to pay for the story)...
andI was writing a thesis on the PC, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And then, like, half of my thesis was gone. And I was, like heh. It devoured my thesis. It was a really good thesis. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer.
Yes. 96 Watt Hour batteries tend to run longer than 50 Watt Hour batteries. The Dell's default BIOS settings also cut the screen brightness by half when its unplugged. I agree that specs are not the iBook's strong point. Its a nice little package. An Inspiron could have even better specs for the same price if Dell somehow wired the parts together without a case. I wouldn't call that progress, though. Some would...
I crashed to the desktop when a video event was triggered or I put away the PDA. I'm going to try the new Catalyst drivers. With a Radeon 9800 128MB, Athlon 1600XP, and 1GB of RAM, the game is damn slow. It must be the processor...
I agree with the comments on the fansub community improving. Bittorrenting unlicensed anime is my new favorite pastime.
However, the official GITS:SAC release from Bandai isn't available in Region 1 (U.S, Canada) until July 27th. Which region are you in?
If you are watching Hong Kong Silvers (argghh, matey!), you are watching either a Japanese to Chinese to English quickie translation or a fansub from another group. If you see words to the effect of, "If you paid for this, you got ripped off!", in the beginning or during an interstitial, you should get the idea.
"...and how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?"
or most entertainment technologies for that matter...Japanese companies are far more willing to adopt new technologies than American companies. U.S. companies want to wring every last red cent they can out of existing technologies. Does anyone remember the fight to get broadcasters to adopt HDTV? HDTV was on the books since the mid-80s. The networks bitched about the equipment costs and wanted to cram more channels into the new bandwidth made available through a side-effect from HDTV called narrowcasting. Ultimately, the government stepped in, and said start working on HDTV.
On a side note, I'm now damn confused about cellular data service. I was looking forward to U.S. adoption of UMTS-enabled phones so that when I went on a trip to Europe next August I could get broadband. My hopes were pinned on ATT Wireless fulfilling its contract with DoCoMo by rolling out W-CDMA and UMTS in four American cities. Why is DoCoMo using OFCDM? Any help on this subject is appreciated...
I'll bet many of the survivors of Sept. 11 2001 made it through because of cell phone communications.
That and landlines. I remember reading that it was the radios that NYC police and safety workers had that didn't work from within the towers. I'm not sure if their request for new communications equipment, placed before 9/11, was ever fulfilled.
Two Zip Drives, including 1 USB 250 and 1 Parallel 100.
4 Zip 100 disks. At $10/piece, this gets expensive. Any graphic artist could claim more.
What are the realities of life? If the government should pick from a list of, let's say, murder, famine, and disease, which ones would you support?
Usually the government is trying to protect our way of life or alliances with other nations. None of the wars that the US was involved in over the past 100 years, with the exception of Pearl Harbor, took place on American soil. At the local government level, police do not serve as your bodyguard, but can arrest someone after they have robbed or murdered you. Hopefully, the punishment that person receives serves to discourage others.
Forgot where I read it...maybe it was here, but the spokesman for an Indian accounting firm was describing the many benefits that relying on Indian labor would bring to Americans. He said that Americans would be able to sit on the beach all day, sipping drinks, while Indians took care of the work.
Don't you want to sip drinks on the beach?
Some of the mass storage systems you referred to use a single disk, and, were therefore, termed SLED, which stands for Single Large Expensive Disk.
My favorite is still JBOD, which stands for Just a Bunch of Disks.
I work at a state university. My department recently hired a graduate from the masters in software engineering program to work on our web-based reservation system. Strangely enough, he's had to dig back into his tech course materials from India to remember database design.
Wow, between a 15 pound Les Paul, active pickups with 9 volt batteries, wireless receiver with batteries, and one of these devices, also with batteries, you could jump off an amp and go right through the stage floor...amazing.
I don't trust computers not because I am ignorant of what they can do because I know exactly what they are able to do and how easy it would be to rig an election.
So do others. Diebold even employs a computer programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.hI haven't seen Iria:Zeiram, but its disingenuous to compare a serious animated series based on a movie to funny, satirical cartoon shorts from the 30s that were used to provide breaks between movies.
Part of it also comes down to deadlines. Looney Tunes were created as new movies came out. Zeiram was in production for months. However, when you compare 1930s Looney Tunes to modern TV quality anime, such as Pokemon or even Rurouni Kenshin, the Looney Tunes art is higher quality and the animation is far more fluid. You have to remember that their competitor was Disney, which you didn't bring up as an example of bad animation for some reason ;)
I agree with a lot of your post, however. Plot-wise, Pokemon is the closest thing to the toy marketing scam shows of the early 80s, which, ironically, were produced by many of the same anime artists before their skills improved. Scooby Doo was a prime time comedy, so its hard for me to fault it for not having a deep storyline. The repeated celebrity appearances in the later seasons annoy me, though.
The good news is that computer generated backgrounds and other tools are allowing both sides of the ocean to concentrate more on the animation with what little deadline they have. Pretty soon, we won't be forced to watch action faked by endless, uneccessary banter in American cartoons ("Oh, I'm hit! Are your hurt! Are you sure you're okay! He's getting away! Where'd he go?") or still frame directional lines and wildtakes in every Japanese anime scene. A lot of the recent fansubbed TV anime that I download have openings with windblown hair. I think they're showing off.
The Windows XP is in beta and has been released as an ISO to members of MSDN. Unfortunately, not being a member, I had to patch my uncle's computer over a 44K modem connection last weekend. Fortuantely, it had SP1 already.
I hate to make this a "me too" post, but I can share an experience.
I interviewed with a VP from Wal-Mart (don't ask) the semester that I graduated from college. I answered the "tough questions" fairly well.
Him: "Someone who's been working at the store 20 years is going to come up to you and say, 'Why did you get this job instead of me?'
My jiu-jitsu answer: "You are so good at your job. I don't think anyone else could fill your shoes if you got promoted. Me? They just brought me in. I'm going to need your experience."
Slimy, I know. He liked it.
When it was time to ask him questions, I went for the jugular.
Me: "Seeing as how your total revenue is already over $200 billion (note: I don't remember exactly --it's damn high), how will you attract new investors who are looking for short-term stock price gains? I mean, you mentioned that even your training managers work 50 hours/week. Do you expect that I would eventually need to work 80 hours/week?"
He stammered and was flustered...
Him: "I just...just finished a new schedule. Its a 6 day schedule."
Me: "Oh, I see, a staggered schedule with a different day off each week."
He didn't elaborate any further.
As it was my first webconference interview, I made faces when he was speaking to his camera (he was posed nicely; I looked like I was living in a fishbowl). This wasn't too bright. There was a slight delay in the video signal and his horrified expression when he looked down at his monitor spoke volumes. Needless to say, I didn't get the job, but Wal-Mart corporate did buy back a boat load of stock the next week. Also, recent news from Oregon shows that workers have worked unpaid overtime for the past several years.
I went to Iraq for some WMDs, and all I got was this lousy despot!
I prefer NERDC.
Also ranks along the ever popular WinCE.
The last company I worked for engineered a benchmark test before the company's new RAID SCSI host card was completed.
The card was benchmarked against a RAID Ultra SCSI LVD card from a German competitor named ICP Vortec. Even though the new card was in development, they expected it to beat the Vortec. It didn't...until they removed most of the Vortec's components and replaced them with parts from a much slower (and inexpensive) card that wasn't even considered a serious competitor. These benchmarks were used in advertisements, entire phrases stating the superiority of the product were co-opped from press releases by lazy magazine columnists (which is sadly common in most journalism nowadays), and sent to companies requesting further information. On a somewhat related note, a claim on the product sheets for the aforementioned product line that the product had been Windows certified ended up costing the company a $10K fine from MS and had to be destroyed.
I guess that ultimately it doesn't matter. The owner sold the company to the largest competitor.
This will only work if the certification process in itself does not become an industry.
No MCT-style trainer certifications, either. Those people are whores who jump from one product to another and don't give a damn about any of it. As a matter of fact, a co-worker recently went to Novell CNA training where the instructor said that he hated Novell and preferred Microsoft but couldn't care less about either as he was an Mac user.
Say I later start a company to do the stuff I've learned for profit. Would I risk committing a crime by using my personal use version? I think not.
Would I be inclined to buy the software I know and love? I think so.
I think that's a great attitude. That said, a company that created the CG sequences in Blade II and some other movies used a cracked copy of Maya, according to a guest speaker at Full Sail over a year ago. Why she mentioned this is beyond me.
A company that designed the Sky Mall catalogs (found on some airlines) had a single copy of Photoshop that they ran over a network, one computer at a time. On the tax humor side, this company hid funiture and equipment for another business when that business was audited, and had my friend (an intern at the time) stand over IRS auditors with his arms folded to intimidate them with their company was audited.
Some companies, like Apple, charge sales tax on internet orders regardless of where the product is purchased from. I wonder if it gets pocketed?