You can't live in the uk without noticing that we do have subdomains.
In addition to.co.uk,.org.uk and.ac.uk, we also have.net.uk,.gov.uk,.me.uk,.nhs.uk,.mod.uk,.police.uk, and others.
I think the grandparent was referring to the foolishness of having subdomains identical to TLDs, since it is very confusing for the TV consumer level surfer. Our.org.uk domains have never really taken off, and only a very few ISPs use the.net.uk extension.
I'm a Windows user at home and at work. My problem is not 'Broken Features', it's the basic lack of security.
From a clean XP install, you have to know what you are doing to do the following:
- Create a non-admin user for normal use that can still get stuff done. - Get Automatic Update set to auto install. - Find, download, install and configure a firewall to both defend you and not bother you (not counting the Windows firewall-with-holes). - Find, download, install and configure a Virus Scanner - Find, download, install and configure a secure method of browsing the web such as an alternative to IE or IE defense software such as anti-hijack software.
Until those tasks are complete, my opinion is that Windows is not as secure as my clean install of Fedore Core 2.
I'm comfortable with doing those tasks, and I still use Windows, since it is mandated where I work, and I use software (mostly games) that requires it at home. But I enjoy setting up and using my FC2 box at home far more than setting up my 3 WinXP boxes.
I would be much happier supporting FC2 amongst friends and family; unfortunately, like me, they were introduced to computers the MS way, and the learning curve of switching is now steeper than the benefits in their opinions. So even amongst the computer literate users, I am called upon to repair problems with Windows Security on a regular basis. Please explain how Microsoft increases profits with an insecure OS. Sure. It was easy and cheap to code an OS that didn't proactively secure the user. They spent lots of money on artwork, on look and feel, and on marketing, since those things sell the product. They saved money on security; and by now, all they have to do is improve on their last attempt, since we still spend millions on their behlaf eductating our children, employees and new users that 'Microsoft is the only way'. Take a look in a school some time, and see what all the kids are using... yes, your tax dollars are training your children to put money in MS's pocket. That's why they don't spend on security - they don't have to.
I assume you never have to help your family and friends with their windows xp boxes. Unless they bought the machine very recently, the box will not be secure with a button press. Until SP2, no Windows box can be considered to be secure without complex user intervention, and no pre-SP2 box will attempt to make itself SP2, without user intervention.
That 'magic button' to make it secure doesn't exist; and if it did, most end-users would not press it without instruction. Don't forget, that you yourself would not like to touch something you didn't understand, in case you broke it. Do you take your new dishwasher apart and tweak settings to make it wash dishes better? not likely; although it's probably possible, it's better to leave stuff well alone until you understand what you're doing.
Don't try to defend the security design of windows: It was head-in-the-sand at best; at worst it was a deliberate attempt to put users at risk to increase MS profits. Until they release an OS that pro-actively defends the sheep from the wolves, they should bear the blame for these attacks. And updates to their prior releases to match.
Outsourcing abroad for hi-tech is a recent phenomenon. In the past, all of the above reasons have been true, but only low-tech work has been done abroad because of the language and culture barriers, transport costs, and the lower quality of education. Now that education is sliding here, and transport costs are lower with modern communication, the barriers can be overcome. In the UK, schools are allotted funding for A-level courses by the government, based on the number of students taking the course. The money is handed out at Christmas, so students are encouraged to take on courses above their abilities and given a lot of attention in the first term. At the end of the term, they are then told to drop the course, and told the school will not pay for the exam since it was taken against their advice. This is because the schools rating is based on exam results of entered students, and students entered privately do not count. The 'league results' make or break schools here, since parents decide almost completely on the rankings where their child will go. The schools that slide are labelled 'failing schools', and their funding is cut, making it harder for them to bounce back. This is the same vicious circle that hits hospitals in the UK, only with even more dangerous results.
This is in addition to budgets that are based on spending in the previous year, resulting in a mad scramble at the end of each financial year to 'use up' unspent funding, to prevent cuts the following year.
The kids that drop off the bottom of the system to boost the ratings are just casulties of the system, like the patients who spend hours in the back of ambulances because the hospitals won't admit them until they have enough staff to get them triaged in the 4 hour target window.
If you work in the LEAs or the NHS you can see this happening all the time. Outsiders are blissfully unaware of these things. You can find brief mentions of these things on the BBC news website from time to time, but usually only the outrageous cases, like people who have died because the hospital won't admit them until they can meet their targets.
That's the whole frickin point of an encylopedia though - its about educating people who would never know otherwise. If we'd always stuck to 'quality' works, then the Gutenburg bible would never have been printed, and we'll all still be in the dark ages. Quality 'high horses' aren't appropriate in the information age. Everything starts somewhere, and the WP beats word of mouth, or however else you would look up something you don't know without encyclopedias. It's not about educating you, the computer professional, about how to operate a Wintel or suck eggs. It's about teaching you what a sloth is, or who Van Gogh was, or what a cornet is. That's the magic.
Hey - if you were lucky enough to have 'numerous great teachers throughout your Public School system that you still keep in touch with ' then you were one of the lucky ones, or else you live somewhere different to me. Where I grew up, a good teacher was a rare exception, and a great one unheard of. I'm actually glad you got the breaks there - congrats man, I wish I had too.
People are going to college in greater numbers than ever, but it's no coincidence that employers here are finding it harder and harder to find good employees, and they're finally outsourcing, to countries where the culture, language, and society are giant barriers. Know why? it's because we are under-educating ourselves out of the global market. Even with all the massive advantages we have here, we're not turning out professionals that can compete on a world scale any more. So don't give me 'we must be doing something right'. We're doing something badly wrong, and while our teachers are still telling kids 'you're going to fail, we want you to quit this course to make us look better', then we won't resolve this. That's what I was told - I stayed, passed, and got a job my teachers could never have had. But I will always suffer from that, since they ruined higher education for me, and I turned down my university offers to enter the workplace. So, I'm bitter, but am I wrong?
Man, fuck you I stand corrected by your wisdom.:) Many of my friends are teachers, and your attitude towards them quite frankly couldn't BE more insulting and disrespectful Oh, you know teachers? that doesn't make you understand the motivation. It's not individuals or human nature that is at fault here - it's 'the system'. It used to be better here, and it's still better elsewhere. There's still time to fix the system, but there's a lot of work to do. Time to bin those huge budgets for 'smart boards' and the like, and invest in teacher training, textbooks, and some smart ideas about what our kids really need to know for their lives. (Hint: they'll be driving cars, typing, and interacting with others everyday of their lives. And not speaking French.)
Plus some teachers have an amazing self defense approach. It goes with the authority issues. If you listen to them talk, they're a undervalued essential of modern society, whose contribution makes firefighters, nurses and charity volunteers look like lazy, self obsessed losers.
It is disrespectful. If you can show me something that deserves respect, a real world case, something that matters to me, then I'll change my mind. Until then, I'm going by my experience, as a child, as an adult, as someone who knows teachers (yes I do too), as someone who pays teachers through my taxes, and doesn't get value for money. I was there too: I passed A-levels I was told I would fail, I stuck in when I was told to quit, I fought the system when it told me I would fail, and now I have made it despite them, I now have a job that will one day support a family and career that will test my skills. If I'd taken what the system wanted to give, I'd be flipping burgers or shifting boxes, and my job would be in Dehli by now.
We need to demand change at the top. Give those idealist teachers a chance to make a difference. Sack the lazy, arrogant ones. Give the kids a chance, and a future, for all our sakes.
Your sole standard is whether you "like" what's written?! It appears that truth no longer matters in your bottom-up society.
Valid. But for many years, our sole standard has been what CNN, BBC, MIT, or USA "likes".
Journalism (where people get their knowledge, on average) is dependent only peer review. Unless a equal or greator power forces a public retraction, what the journalist writes IS fact. In many cases, even the most glaring errors remain unchanged in people's minds.
What matters to people is how their viewpoint matches others. In general, provable facts are easily thrown down by opinion, and many parts of our lives depend utterly on opinion - driven in many cases by the mass media.
Witness the apartheid regime in South Africa, where common whites on the street would hear of the critism leveled from abroad, and say "What's their problem? We love our blacks, and we look after them...". That's a viewpoint that came entirely from the media, the government, and from 'popular culture'. All those bastions of 'ultimate truth'. The same people who persecuted Jesus, Galileo and Turing.
Don't forget, also, that time changes everything. Everyone learnt in school that 'The USA won the space race'. But what did they win? First to space? No. First men to space? No. Control of Space? No. What they won was the war, and with it public opinion, history, and the common perception of 'truth'.
So be very careful where you get your truth from. Truth from the sources you trust may be very different when history has been rewritten yet again by the winners.
You make me laugh. You 'educators' will simply take your drivel as passed from above (the 'curriculum') without critical regard of any type, and spout it in the dictated fashion with the minimal possible effort. With your lack of any credentials (as a Anon. Coward), your naivety implies you are not in a position to make policy decision within the 'education system' at any rate.
I agree entirely with his concerns on accuracy, but that's missing the point of the Wikipedia. The Wikipedia is accessable knowledge for the masses. It's comprehensive, current, and massively available. It's a resource the traditional encyclopedias cannot hope to match. But it's an evolution of what they were. Many years ago, encylopedias were distilled summeries of information for the common man. They weren't supposed to be the most accurate information, and they certainly weren't the most complete. They were summaries, which pointed to reader in the right direction. This is wikipedias purpose. It guides the reader where they want to go. Summaries, and pointers to further reading. It distills the mass of knowledge into a format quickly digested by the ignorant; which is all of us, because no-one learns a topic they are familer with from an encylopedia.
briefly back to self-important educators:
It's interesting to look at the motivation that drives teachers. There are two factors:
1. A geniuine desire to impart knowledge. This starts from the bottom end with a 'They're cute, and I can help them' feeling, combined with a realisation of the lack of any real work involved, or from the top end, with a 'I know so much more than those around me, I should demonstrate that knowlege' which combines with an attempt to stay in the higher education system with its low workload and perks for as long as possible, avoiding the 'real world'. 2. Authority issues. This motivater grows stronger over time, as your subconcious attitude shifts from a desire to control your powerless pupils, to a realisation that your power exists only within the tiny spectrum of your educational establishment. This is worst at the bottom end of the system, and it slowly grows worse over time, as suceeding generations become more and more disenchanted with their teachers. Many generations ago, it was normal for children to admire and respect most of their teachers; now, it is rare in a childs eduction for them admire any. Soon, this will have disappeared entirely.
The education system that that was a defining factor in tipping the balance of power to the western world (and specifically the USA) has slid to the point where it provides a stumbling block, and not an advantage. I live in the UK, and I see an education system that is at crisis point at the grass roots level.
Your glass is half-empty: trains also start at train stations and buses also start at bus stations.
You don't live in the UK then. Trains starting or stopping at stations is considered foolish optomism here.
Usual behaviour is considered to be failing to arrive, failing to go anywhere, getting halfway and breaking down or just sitting for hours at a time in the middle of nowhere. On a good day. With the right kind of leaves. And the wrong kind of Terrorists.
No, Muse is close, but it doesn't cover the same scope. Activeworlds was the only one that stood out on the other list - essentially just a MMORPG where you pay just for the servers, and are expected to donate the content.
Both are proprietary, and more limited. Croquet has a much grander scope than either. It's not planned as 3d web, but a multi-user, multi-machine operating system with a 3d interface.
This will require a shift in the way that concepts are handled. For example, an avater represents a user and not an account. Say you are playing that game of chess in your 3D world, and your young female opponent wishes to do something using a different set of privileges. They can't just su root and reappear a giant elephant stamping around, just to answer the virtual door or whatever. That would be as confusing as anything. Hence, privilges need to be handled almost like a bunch of virtual keys, or a toolkit or something. Something you could use without changing your avater. hence, users are not accounts any more. If they really can get a 'metaverse' running along the kinds of lines they are talking about, it will be the biggest thing to happen since the invention of the web. but there are so, so, so many hurdles between here and the Black Sun...
/akadruid opens a portal between his user space and the torrent tracker.
Could be you it wasn't the answer you wanted, or wasn't said how you wanted to hear it, so you ignored it.
I felt exactly like you for a long time, and I bet I would have given a similar answer. When I finally figured that I had nothing to lose, I noticed how God had really been talking to me, and I'd been ignoring him.
Look at it this way - the rewards are big enough to be worth the gamble here. If I'm right, and there really is a purpose to our lives, then I win big - bigger than anything we can imagine. If you're right, and this is all we get, at least I'm happy under the 'delusion' that God is guiding my life.
Spend some time to check out Christianity, and let God speak to you. I promise you, you won't regret it. Besides, Christianity is not about church, or other Christians - it's about you and God, so there's nothing on earth to bind you to it. If God didn't exist, you could abandon the idea having lost nothing but a few minutes of your time.
Do you know what racist even means? Check it up some day and learn to use it correctly. Grandparent was specifically targeting people he regards as abusing the welfare system, and connecting them with people who give their children unusual names. Now that might be unpleasant to people who feel targeted by his comments, but there is no link to any race or ethnicity... except, of course, the one you chose to create. Which ethnicity do you associate with that behaviour? and why? You may well find yourself with racist viewpoint.
Part of the reason that discrimination is such a difficult problem to solve is that after endless media promotion, the vocal majority who don't think about these issues like to jump on the popular band wagon, and muddy the waters for everyone.
Does anyone else remember the case in Wales, where a paediatrician was set upon by a mob of parents? Having skim read the incessant media scare stories of paedophiles roaming the streets like movie zombies, they had assumed that the two words were interchangeable...
Lamentably, our education system seems to have failed these people. That's if you don't take the rather discriminatory approach that some folks are too stupid to be taught.
the problem is that the tortured copyright model that we have been spoon-feed since childhood by our media overlords does not stand up in the face of modern technology.
In another industry, a product that is artifically overpriced will disappear from the marketplace. Only in the recording industry can that be prevented by ever changing laws.
I obey the laws of my country because it is right. They also do a medium-to-reasonable job.
I do not support the abuse of copyright law, and I do not buy from the Big 4. When the artists employ the promotion companies, as happens in every other industry, only then when the abuse stop. Did you know that even artists such as Westlife actually lose money on CDs? At best, artists get 10% of the profit on a CD. The rest goes to the promotion companies, to make more pop idol shows and bombard the 13 year old girls with tv adverts.
I refuse to spend my money on yachts and mansions for the directors of the Big 4.
If you want to support them, watch them live. Metallica are still an amazing live act, and when I last saw them (Reading Festival 2003) they played a fair bit of their older music.
Why do the artists get nothing? allofmp3 do pay their licensing fees. There may be a question what the Russian government does about passing those fees on to the artists but realistically, the copyright model is such a tortured, twisted shadow of the original intentions, that I feel no guilt about buying music there. I am breaking no law but yet I am not supporting Big 4 concept that would spend my money on 'pop idol' and the top 40. When they realise I am a discerning consumor and not a 13 year old girl perhaps they will market products that interest me. Until then, I will buy my music where I please and support my artists at gigs and festivals.
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You can't live in the uk without noticing that we do have subdomains.
.co.uk, .org.uk and .ac.uk, we also have .net.uk, .gov.uk, .me.uk, .nhs.uk, .mod.uk, .police.uk, and others.
.org.uk domains have never really taken off, and only a very few ISPs use the .net.uk extension.
In addition to
I think the grandparent was referring to the foolishness of having subdomains identical to TLDs, since it is very confusing for the TV consumer level surfer. Our
I'm a Windows user at home and at work. My problem is not 'Broken Features', it's the basic lack of security.
From a clean XP install, you have to know what you are doing to do the following:
- Create a non-admin user for normal use that can still get stuff done.
- Get Automatic Update set to auto install.
- Find, download, install and configure a firewall to both defend you and not bother you (not counting the Windows firewall-with-holes).
- Find, download, install and configure a Virus Scanner
- Find, download, install and configure a secure method of browsing the web such as an alternative to IE or IE defense software such as anti-hijack software.
Until those tasks are complete, my opinion is that Windows is not as secure as my clean install of Fedore Core 2.
I'm comfortable with doing those tasks, and I still use Windows, since it is mandated where I work, and I use software (mostly games) that requires it at home. But I enjoy setting up and using my FC2 box at home far more than setting up my 3 WinXP boxes.
I would be much happier supporting FC2 amongst friends and family; unfortunately, like me, they were introduced to computers the MS way, and the learning curve of switching is now steeper than the benefits in their opinions. So even amongst the computer literate users, I am called upon to repair problems with Windows Security on a regular basis.
Please explain how Microsoft increases profits with an insecure OS.
Sure. It was easy and cheap to code an OS that didn't proactively secure the user. They spent lots of money on artwork, on look and feel, and on marketing, since those things sell the product. They saved money on security; and by now, all they have to do is improve on their last attempt, since we still spend millions on their behlaf eductating our children, employees and new users that 'Microsoft is the only way'. Take a look in a school some time, and see what all the kids are using... yes, your tax dollars are training your children to put money in MS's pocket. That's why they don't spend on security - they don't have to.
You click a button, and it keeps you up to date.
I assume you never have to help your family and friends with their windows xp boxes. Unless they bought the machine very recently, the box will not be secure with a button press. Until SP2, no Windows box can be considered to be secure without complex user intervention, and no pre-SP2 box will attempt to make itself SP2, without user intervention.
That 'magic button' to make it secure doesn't exist; and if it did, most end-users would not press it without instruction. Don't forget, that you yourself would not like to touch something you didn't understand, in case you broke it. Do you take your new dishwasher apart and tweak settings to make it wash dishes better? not likely; although it's probably possible, it's better to leave stuff well alone until you understand what you're doing.
Don't try to defend the security design of windows: It was head-in-the-sand at best; at worst it was a deliberate attempt to put users at risk to increase MS profits. Until they release an OS that pro-actively defends the sheep from the wolves, they should bear the blame for these attacks. And updates to their prior releases to match.
Outsourcing abroad for hi-tech is a recent phenomenon. In the past, all of the above reasons have been true, but only low-tech work has been done abroad because of the language and culture barriers, transport costs, and the lower quality of education. Now that education is sliding here, and transport costs are lower with modern communication, the barriers can be overcome.
In the UK, schools are allotted funding for A-level courses by the government, based on the number of students taking the course. The money is handed out at Christmas, so students are encouraged to take on courses above their abilities and given a lot of attention in the first term. At the end of the term, they are then told to drop the course, and told the school will not pay for the exam since it was taken against their advice. This is because the schools rating is based on exam results of entered students, and students entered privately do not count. The 'league results' make or break schools here, since parents decide almost completely on the rankings where their child will go. The schools that slide are labelled 'failing schools', and their funding is cut, making it harder for them to bounce back. This is the same vicious circle that hits hospitals in the UK, only with even more dangerous results.
This is in addition to budgets that are based on spending in the previous year, resulting in a mad scramble at the end of each financial year to 'use up' unspent funding, to prevent cuts the following year.
The kids that drop off the bottom of the system to boost the ratings are just casulties of the system, like the patients who spend hours in the back of ambulances because the hospitals won't admit them until they have enough staff to get them triaged in the 4 hour target window.
If you work in the LEAs or the NHS you can see this happening all the time. Outsiders are blissfully unaware of these things. You can find brief mentions of these things on the BBC news website from time to time, but usually only the outrageous cases, like people who have died because the hospital won't admit them until they can meet their targets.
That's the whole frickin point of an encylopedia though - its about educating people who would never know otherwise. If we'd always stuck to 'quality' works, then the Gutenburg bible would never have been printed, and we'll all still be in the dark ages. Quality 'high horses' aren't appropriate in the information age. Everything starts somewhere, and the WP beats word of mouth, or however else you would look up something you don't know without encyclopedias. It's not about educating you, the computer professional, about how to operate a Wintel or suck eggs. It's about teaching you what a sloth is, or who Van Gogh was, or what a cornet is. That's the magic.
Hey - if you were lucky enough to have 'numerous great teachers throughout your Public School system that you still keep in touch with ' then you were one of the lucky ones, or else you live somewhere different to me. Where I grew up, a good teacher was a rare exception, and a great one unheard of. I'm actually glad you got the breaks there - congrats man, I wish I had too.
People are going to college in greater numbers than ever, but it's no coincidence that employers here are finding it harder and harder to find good employees, and they're finally outsourcing, to countries where the culture, language, and society are giant barriers. Know why? it's because we are under-educating ourselves out of the global market. Even with all the massive advantages we have here, we're not turning out professionals that can compete on a world scale any more. So don't give me 'we must be doing something right'. We're doing something badly wrong, and while our teachers are still telling kids 'you're going to fail, we want you to quit this course to make us look better', then we won't resolve this. That's what I was told - I stayed, passed, and got a job my teachers could never have had. But I will always suffer from that, since they ruined higher education for me, and I turned down my university offers to enter the workplace. So, I'm bitter, but am I wrong?
Man, fuck you :)
I stand corrected by your wisdom.
Many of my friends are teachers, and your attitude towards them quite frankly couldn't BE more insulting and disrespectful
Oh, you know teachers? that doesn't make you understand the motivation. It's not individuals or human nature that is at fault here - it's 'the system'. It used to be better here, and it's still better elsewhere. There's still time to fix the system, but there's a lot of work to do. Time to bin those huge budgets for 'smart boards' and the like, and invest in teacher training, textbooks, and some smart ideas about what our kids really need to know for their lives. (Hint: they'll be driving cars, typing, and interacting with others everyday of their lives. And not speaking French.)
Plus some teachers have an amazing self defense approach. It goes with the authority issues. If you listen to them talk, they're a undervalued essential of modern society, whose contribution makes firefighters, nurses and charity volunteers look like lazy, self obsessed losers.
It is disrespectful. If you can show me something that deserves respect, a real world case, something that matters to me, then I'll change my mind. Until then, I'm going by my experience, as a child, as an adult, as someone who knows teachers (yes I do too), as someone who pays teachers through my taxes, and doesn't get value for money. I was there too: I passed A-levels I was told I would fail, I stuck in when I was told to quit, I fought the system when it told me I would fail, and now I have made it despite them, I now have a job that will one day support a family and career that will test my skills. If I'd taken what the system wanted to give, I'd be flipping burgers or shifting boxes, and my job would be in Dehli by now.
We need to demand change at the top. Give those idealist teachers a chance to make a difference. Sack the lazy, arrogant ones. Give the kids a chance, and a future, for all our sakes.
Your sole standard is whether you "like" what's written?! It appears that truth no longer matters in your bottom-up society.
Valid. But for many years, our sole standard has been what CNN, BBC, MIT, or USA "likes".
Journalism (where people get their knowledge, on average) is dependent only peer review. Unless a equal or greator power forces a public retraction, what the journalist writes IS fact. In many cases, even the most glaring errors remain unchanged in people's minds.
What matters to people is how their viewpoint matches others. In general, provable facts are easily thrown down by opinion, and many parts of our lives depend utterly on opinion - driven in many cases by the mass media.
Witness the apartheid regime in South Africa, where common whites on the street would hear of the critism leveled from abroad, and say "What's their problem? We love our blacks, and we look after them...". That's a viewpoint that came entirely from the media, the government, and from 'popular culture'. All those bastions of 'ultimate truth'. The same people who persecuted Jesus, Galileo and Turing.
Don't forget, also, that time changes everything. Everyone learnt in school that 'The USA won the space race'. But what did they win? First to space? No. First men to space? No. Control of Space? No. What they won was the war, and with it public opinion, history, and the common perception of 'truth'.
So be very careful where you get your truth from. Truth from the sources you trust may be very different when history has been rewritten yet again by the winners.
'As an educator'...?!
You make me laugh. You 'educators' will simply take your drivel as passed from above (the 'curriculum') without critical regard of any type, and spout it in the dictated fashion with the minimal possible effort. With your lack of any credentials (as a Anon. Coward), your naivety implies you are not in a position to make policy decision within the 'education system' at any rate.
I agree entirely with his concerns on accuracy, but that's missing the point of the Wikipedia. The Wikipedia is accessable knowledge for the masses. It's comprehensive, current, and massively available. It's a resource the traditional encyclopedias cannot hope to match. But it's an evolution of what they were. Many years ago, encylopedias were distilled summeries of information for the common man. They weren't supposed to be the most accurate information, and they certainly weren't the most complete. They were summaries, which pointed to reader in the right direction. This is wikipedias purpose. It guides the reader where they want to go. Summaries, and pointers to further reading. It distills the mass of knowledge into a format quickly digested by the ignorant; which is all of us, because no-one learns a topic they are familer with from an encylopedia.
briefly back to self-important educators:
It's interesting to look at the motivation that drives teachers. There are two factors:
1. A geniuine desire to impart knowledge. This starts from the bottom end with a 'They're cute, and I can help them' feeling, combined with a realisation of the lack of any real work involved, or from the top end, with a 'I know so much more than those around me, I should demonstrate that knowlege' which combines with an attempt to stay in the higher education system with its low workload and perks for as long as possible, avoiding the 'real world'.
2. Authority issues. This motivater grows stronger over time, as your subconcious attitude shifts from a desire to control your powerless pupils, to a realisation that your power exists only within the tiny spectrum of your educational establishment. This is worst at the bottom end of the system, and it slowly grows worse over time, as suceeding generations become more and more disenchanted with their teachers. Many generations ago, it was normal for children to admire and respect most of their teachers; now, it is rare in a childs eduction for them admire any. Soon, this will have disappeared entirely.
The education system that that was a defining factor in tipping the balance of power to the western world (and specifically the USA) has slid to the point where it provides a stumbling block, and not an advantage. I live in the UK, and I see an education system that is at crisis point at the grass roots level.
There's no need to dry anything or anything like that.
I tried this after they did it on brainiac:
cut grape almost in half.
place grape on top of upturned mug.
place in approx middle of microwave.
nuke on full power until you have a science experiment.
Your glass is half-empty: trains also start at train stations and buses also start at bus stations.
You don't live in the UK then. Trains starting or stopping at stations is considered foolish optomism here.
Usual behaviour is considered to be failing to arrive, failing to go anywhere, getting halfway and breaking down or just sitting for hours at a time in the middle of nowhere. On a good day. With the right kind of leaves. And the wrong kind of Terrorists.
Face-to-Face. Well Face-to-boots maybe.
I find that TightVNC will not read anything that is in the clipboard before it is started. Hence you may have to recopy after opening TightVNC.
Other than that, it works nicely.
In that case, Dell should make available for download a "patch" that will scan for known spyware and remove it...
and solve world hunger too yeah?
Don't tell me everyone's equal under this scheme.
some are more equal than others
No, Muse is close, but it doesn't cover the same scope. Activeworlds was the only one that stood out on the other list - essentially just a MMORPG where you pay just for the servers, and are expected to donate the content.
Both are proprietary, and more limited. Croquet has a much grander scope than either. It's not planned as 3d web, but a multi-user, multi-machine operating system with a 3d interface.
Hence, privilges need to be handled almost like a bunch of virtual keys, or a toolkit or something. Something you could use without changing your avater. hence, users are not accounts any more.
If they really can get a 'metaverse' running along the kinds of lines they are talking about, it will be the biggest thing to happen since the invention of the web. but there are so, so, so many hurdles between here and the Black Sun...
Could be you it wasn't the answer you wanted, or wasn't said how you wanted to hear it, so you ignored it.
I felt exactly like you for a long time, and I bet I would have given a similar answer. When I finally figured that I had nothing to lose, I noticed how God had really been talking to me, and I'd been ignoring him.
Look at it this way - the rewards are big enough to be worth the gamble here. If I'm right, and there really is a purpose to our lives, then I win big - bigger than anything we can imagine. If you're right, and this is all we get, at least I'm happy under the 'delusion' that God is guiding my life.
Spend some time to check out Christianity, and let God speak to you. I promise you, you won't regret it. Besides, Christianity is not about church, or other Christians - it's about you and God, so there's nothing on earth to bind you to it. If God didn't exist, you could abandon the idea having lost nothing but a few minutes of your time.
One or two larger bombs and they are gone... we may lose a battle, but not the war.
Once this Jong guy dies we have a chance to turn them into a "normal" country like S. Korea...
Dubya? What are you doing on Slashdot? Go back to playing Civilisation 9: USA Edition.
Do you know what racist even means? Check it up some day and learn to use it correctly.
Grandparent was specifically targeting people he regards as abusing the welfare system, and connecting them with people who give their children unusual names. Now that might be unpleasant to people who feel targeted by his comments, but there is no link to any race or ethnicity... except, of course, the one you chose to create. Which ethnicity do you associate with that behaviour? and why? You may well find yourself with racist viewpoint.
Part of the reason that discrimination is such a difficult problem to solve is that after endless media promotion, the vocal majority who don't think about these issues like to jump on the popular band wagon, and muddy the waters for everyone.
Does anyone else remember the case in Wales, where a paediatrician was set upon by a mob of parents? Having skim read the incessant media scare stories of paedophiles roaming the streets like movie zombies, they had assumed that the two words were interchangeable...
Lamentably, our education system seems to have failed these people. That's if you don't take the rather discriminatory approach that some folks are too stupid to be taught.
This is the country where we built a tent by the river Thames to celebrate the Millenium
Not just any tent, a really big, really expensive tent!
It could be really handy if we can thing of something to use it for.
exactly.
the problem is that the tortured copyright model that we have been spoon-feed since childhood by our media overlords does not stand up in the face of modern technology.
In another industry, a product that is artifically overpriced will disappear from the marketplace. Only in the recording industry can that be prevented by ever changing laws.
read this:
http://3cx.org/item/21
I obey the laws of my country because it is right. They also do a medium-to-reasonable job.
I do not support the abuse of copyright law, and I do not buy from the Big 4. When the artists employ the promotion companies, as happens in every other industry, only then when the abuse stop. Did you know that even artists such as Westlife actually lose money on CDs? At best, artists get 10% of the profit on a CD. The rest goes to the promotion companies, to make more pop idol shows and bombard the 13 year old girls with tv adverts.
I refuse to spend my money on yachts and mansions for the directors of the Big 4.
If you want to support them, watch them live. Metallica are still an amazing live act, and when I last saw them (Reading Festival 2003) they played a fair bit of their older music.
Oh and download their albums at allofmp3.com too
Why do the artists get nothing? allofmp3 do pay their licensing fees. There may be a question what the Russian government does about passing those fees on to the artists but realistically, the copyright model is such a tortured, twisted shadow of the original intentions, that I feel no guilt about buying music there. I am breaking no law but yet I am not supporting Big 4 concept that would spend my money on 'pop idol' and the top 40. When they realise I am a discerning consumor and not a 13 year old girl perhaps they will market products that interest me. Until then, I will buy my music where I please and support my artists at gigs and festivals.