They've built it piece by piece using tuition. It was started by a church, but the initial cost was not much. They don't build extravagant buildings, which is fine with me because ultimately I'm paying for it. They are continuing to add on to the school as money permits, and at the same time they're taking on more students.
My kids are in one of the top private schools in Nashville, and we pay about $4,000/year per child. My kids could go to school for 100 years just on the initial cost. Put the money into a savings account at the bank, after building a reasonable building, and you could perpetually fund it just from the interest.
I can't believe how incredibly stupid this whole project sounds. Seriously. Microsoft donated "management". That's the only asset that company has that is of lower quality than their products. Holy crap. How stupid are these people?
That's a dictatorship masquerading as communism. Nice try, though.
Um, can you name one communist country that isn't a dictatorship? Didn't think so. Giving the government complete control of the economy by definition requires giving the government complete control of everything. By communist standards, Cuba is nothing special.
In a year or two the standard $500 pc from dell will have all of this stuff built-in, and the vast majority of people will neither know nor care that their pc has special hardware that enables this playback. These same people today don't know that their dvds can't be copied legally.
Just to gauge the reaction, I explained the DMCA to my mother one day in plain English and she was aghast. People who don't hang out on here all day tend to not know these things.
Rather than ranting like a lunatic, don't pay it. Verizon cannot legally drop your phone service if you don't pay that 3rd-party charge. The 3rd party has to come after you to collect, which they won't do if the charge is fraudulent. Also, take 2 minutes and file a complaint with the FCC.
Prosecutors in Michigan were standing by the charges against three Texas men,
The guys from Dallas, whom the grandparent was talking about, are still being charged.
By the way, the impeachment of Clinton wasn't about a blowjob, it was about perjury and witness tampering. He was disbarred in Arkansas for the offense. I liked Clinton, but I can't support someone who sexually harrasses women, then perjures himself and tells witnesses to do the same to cover it up.
The summary: improvised explosives involve pretty nasty stuff that you'd be hard pressed to mix in an airplane lavatory without killing yourself in the process.
Um, as opposed to the successful terrorist who kills himself in the process? These people don't care about death...
So - if it weren't for this Chris guy, CSS wouldn't even have been implemented in IE. If he's right, that says a lot about Microsoft. I tend to believe him here.
It was almost passed over by netscape, also, in favor of their own "javascript stylesheets". If it weren't for this Chris guy, css might not have been implemented anywhere. If he's right, that says a lot about the old Netscape. I tend to believe him here.
CEA members bring in something like $600B in revenue annually, while RIAA members are responsible for something like $10B in revenue. Yes, the music industry is that small, so's the movie industry. Microsoft could buy them both with cash on hand.
The entertainment industry, however, is a big marketing machine, and they know how to market to Congress, in addition to outright buying some of its members.
Congress members are cheap. Literally. For a few hundred thousand here and there you can buy legislation. Pretty much any legislation. It takes something like $100K to turn a Congressman into your own personal puppet, like Fritz Hollings was for the entertainment industry. Put into perspective, it would be like me having to come up with a part of a penny in order to buy legislation to protect my business at the expense of every single person in the US.
Dirty and grotesque as it may seem, the CEA needs to start buying congressmen. I would start with people who were previously and currently bought by the *AA. Turn them into your puppets. They'll do anything for campaign cash.
I've read the snopes article twice, and, yes, it has the correct quote. The author's interpretation is wrong. Again, look up initiative at dictionary.com. Al used definition #2, the snopes.com author claims he used definition #3. Read the dictionary and you'll see the difference, particularly since their example on definition #2 includes "took the initiative".
I keep hearing that statistic about his use of air fuel, but should he take a rowboat to China?
No, he should take a commercial flight. A 747 is very efficient - getting about 100 miles/gallon/passenger, definitely as good as my minivan at literally 10 times the speed. Al decides to fly around in a private jet which is getting a fraction of that milage per passenger. He has choices, his choice is to use tons more fuel for his convenience.
Your argument here is what we call a "false dichotomy". His choices are more than "private jet" or "rowboat".
As for the "internet" quote, the snopes article is obviously written by someone with a bias. I was watching when he said it, and his exact words were "I took the initiative in creating the internet." I did a spit-take; it was one of the most brazen lies ever concocted by a politician.
The excuse that his supporters use is that he's claiming that he supported congressional initiatives to fund the internet in the early days, which he did. But the phrase "I took the initiative" means "I did this". You cannot "take" a congressional initiative, you can only create or support such an initative. Look at the word "initiative" at dictionary.com. Al used definition 2, his supporters claim that he meant definition 3.
The thing I dont understand is how can the police allow themselves to be so propagandized and "programmed" to the point at which they no longer enforce the liberties granted to us under the constitution.
Maybe they were a bit more worried about enforcing the liberties of the victim of this guy's son. It's easy to forget that their son is a petty criminal who was being investigated.
The market is begging for more convenience (e.g. mp3), not better quality physical media. Especially some drm "protected" junk. Not to mention the incredible inertia they would have to overcome just in the number of players that would have to be replaced. They are just setting themselves up for a painful lesson.
For all the innovation to come out of bell labs (and I'm using some of it to type this message), they still never seemed to get what counts. I still have my grandmother's last phone, a western electric desk phone (with dial) that she "rented" for $5/month for as long as I knew her. She paid literally hundreds of dollars for that phone. I can go buy a phone at Wal-mart now for $5 that has more features than that beast. I love Unix, don't get me wrong, but you'd think they could have come up with something practical for their customers.
From everything I read, the FBI performed this arrest in a way that I wish *all* law enforcement would follow. They tracked him well enough to know where he would be in a public place, and they quietly went in and arrested him. No big show, no breaking down doors with guns blazing and cameras following.
For instance, 20 years ago there was nothing strange about having an actual quicksort machine instruction (VAXen had it). One expectation was still, at the time, that a lot of code would be generated directly by humans, so instructions and instruction designs catering to that use-case were developed. But by around then, most code was machine generated by a compiler, and since the compiler had little high-level semantics to work with, the high-level instructions - and most low-level one's too - went unused; this was one impetus for the development of RISC machines, by the way.
As someone else mentioned, there is no quicksort instruction. That's far too complex and involves looping and conditional branching. Probably the most complex of vax instructions was the polyf/polyg instruction, which would compute a polynomial to 7 iterations thus allowing one instruction to compute a trigonometric function. There were also instructions for copying strings up to 64k (and those instructions were interruptable), and instructions to format numbers a la cobol pics. These instructions were generally emulated in the smaller microvaxen and such, but were in microcode on the larger ones. Note that even x86 has a string copy instruction.
Now, here's where you're really wrong. Those instructions weren't put in there as a convenience to humans writing in assembly. Instead, they were put in there as a convenience to compiler writers who could make use of the high-level assembly instructions to ease their code generation. The cobol compiler was almost unnecessary. They had numeric data types to cover it, it was nuts.
They also had instructions to deal with octawords (128 bit integers), and of course the vax allowed accesses of any size integer on any boundary, which could mean a couple of fetches for a particular piece of data. There are assembly instructions to force alignment.
The only non-magic of which I'm aware is that it was "required" that between writing a piece of code into memory and executing it there should be an intervening rei instruction, apparently to clear all caching. I put the word "required" in quotes for a reason. A professor at a college that I attended wrote a very popular Scheme compiler. I mentioned one day to a grad-student friend this requirement, and somehow we ended up getting to the prof. He didn't have that in his compiler and it worked just fine writing to a piece of memory then executing it. I showed him the page in the VAX Architecture Handbook (probably around 276 or 278) and we got a good chuckle.
Anyway, shortly after VAX came out people started to seriously think about simplifying the instruction set and putting more burden on the compilers. I still believe the Alpha is probably the king of risc, ironic given that VAX is the king of cisc. Most of the lessons that VAX taught us were in the negative.
Do you think some of that IT might be for a hospital? Or, maybe for the law enforcement agencies that are trying to track down terrorists and prevent the next attack? Do you think the injured survivors would have rather had people mourning in the streets for the dead or trying to keep the hospital running, which includes IT?
Mourning is fine, but the living have to get on with life. As Jesus said: "Let the dead bury the dead."
By the way, Israel isn't at war with Lebanon. They're at war with Hezbollah, which is occupying the southern part of Lebanon.
My experience is that I get huge long-term benefits, not just the faster up-front development. The main reason I develop in rails is that I have much easier long-term maintenance, and making changes to applications has been easy. Way easier than the php code that I have out there.
Put another way, I think your rails slam is unjustified.
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They've built it piece by piece using tuition. It was started by a church, but the initial cost was not much. They don't build extravagant buildings, which is fine with me because ultimately I'm paying for it. They are continuing to add on to the school as money permits, and at the same time they're taking on more students.
My kids are in one of the top private schools in Nashville, and we pay about $4,000/year per child. My kids could go to school for 100 years just on the initial cost. Put the money into a savings account at the bank, after building a reasonable building, and you could perpetually fund it just from the interest.
I can't believe how incredibly stupid this whole project sounds. Seriously. Microsoft donated "management". That's the only asset that company has that is of lower quality than their products. Holy crap. How stupid are these people?
Um, can you name one communist country that isn't a dictatorship? Didn't think so. Giving the government complete control of the economy by definition requires giving the government complete control of everything. By communist standards, Cuba is nothing special.
Nice try, though.
In a year or two the standard $500 pc from dell will have all of this stuff built-in, and the vast majority of people will neither know nor care that their pc has special hardware that enables this playback. These same people today don't know that their dvds can't be copied legally.
Just to gauge the reaction, I explained the DMCA to my mother one day in plain English and she was aghast. People who don't hang out on here all day tend to not know these things.
Yes, but if you find this so repulsive, there's still a communist utopia just 90 miles south of Florida.
IANAL, but:
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Rather than ranting like a lunatic, don't pay it. Verizon cannot legally drop your phone service if you don't pay that 3rd-party charge. The 3rd party has to come after you to collect, which they won't do if the charge is fraudulent. Also, take 2 minutes and file a complaint with the FCC.
http://www.puco.ohio.gov/PUCO/Consumer/informatio
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/news/080702fraudwk3.html
So, they're back where they started?
But the latency sucks.
You must be illiterate. From the article:
The guys from Dallas, whom the grandparent was talking about, are still being charged.
By the way, the impeachment of Clinton wasn't about a blowjob, it was about perjury and witness tampering. He was disbarred in Arkansas for the offense. I liked Clinton, but I can't support someone who sexually harrasses women, then perjures himself and tells witnesses to do the same to cover it up.
Yes, to someone who ships them to a terrorist organization in the ME. And, yes, they knew where the phones were going.
Um, as opposed to the successful terrorist who kills himself in the process? These people don't care about death...
It was almost passed over by netscape, also, in favor of their own "javascript stylesheets". If it weren't for this Chris guy, css might not have been implemented anywhere. If he's right, that says a lot about the old Netscape. I tend to believe him here.
Gee, I dunno, maybe when The Airlines quit being a branch of the government?
An airline is a private business. If you don't like the rules, ride a bus.
CEA members bring in something like $600B in revenue annually, while RIAA members are responsible for something like $10B in revenue. Yes, the music industry is that small, so's the movie industry. Microsoft could buy them both with cash on hand.
The entertainment industry, however, is a big marketing machine, and they know how to market to Congress, in addition to outright buying some of its members.
Congress members are cheap. Literally. For a few hundred thousand here and there you can buy legislation. Pretty much any legislation. It takes something like $100K to turn a Congressman into your own personal puppet, like Fritz Hollings was for the entertainment industry. Put into perspective, it would be like me having to come up with a part of a penny in order to buy legislation to protect my business at the expense of every single person in the US.
Dirty and grotesque as it may seem, the CEA needs to start buying congressmen. I would start with people who were previously and currently bought by the *AA. Turn them into your puppets. They'll do anything for campaign cash.
Sadly, there's no real alternative...
I've read the snopes article twice, and, yes, it has the correct quote. The author's interpretation is wrong. Again, look up initiative at dictionary.com. Al used definition #2, the snopes.com author claims he used definition #3. Read the dictionary and you'll see the difference, particularly since their example on definition #2 includes "took the initiative".
I keep hearing that statistic about his use of air fuel, but should he take a rowboat to China?
No, he should take a commercial flight. A 747 is very efficient - getting about 100 miles/gallon/passenger, definitely as good as my minivan at literally 10 times the speed. Al decides to fly around in a private jet which is getting a fraction of that milage per passenger. He has choices, his choice is to use tons more fuel for his convenience.
Your argument here is what we call a "false dichotomy". His choices are more than "private jet" or "rowboat".
As for the "internet" quote, the snopes article is obviously written by someone with a bias. I was watching when he said it, and his exact words were "I took the initiative in creating the internet." I did a spit-take; it was one of the most brazen lies ever concocted by a politician.
The excuse that his supporters use is that he's claiming that he supported congressional initiatives to fund the internet in the early days, which he did. But the phrase "I took the initiative" means "I did this". You cannot "take" a congressional initiative, you can only create or support such an initative. Look at the word "initiative" at dictionary.com. Al used definition 2, his supporters claim that he meant definition 3.
Maybe they were a bit more worried about enforcing the liberties of the victim of this guy's son. It's easy to forget that their son is a petty criminal who was being investigated.
The market is begging for more convenience (e.g. mp3), not better quality physical media. Especially some drm "protected" junk. Not to mention the incredible inertia they would have to overcome just in the number of players that would have to be replaced. They are just setting themselves up for a painful lesson.
I don't want her to be invisible. Naked, maybe.
For all the innovation to come out of bell labs (and I'm using some of it to type this message), they still never seemed to get what counts. I still have my grandmother's last phone, a western electric desk phone (with dial) that she "rented" for $5/month for as long as I knew her. She paid literally hundreds of dollars for that phone. I can go buy a phone at Wal-mart now for $5 that has more features than that beast. I love Unix, don't get me wrong, but you'd think they could have come up with something practical for their customers.
From everything I read, the FBI performed this arrest in a way that I wish *all* law enforcement would follow. They tracked him well enough to know where he would be in a public place, and they quietly went in and arrested him. No big show, no breaking down doors with guns blazing and cameras following.
As someone else mentioned, there is no quicksort instruction. That's far too complex and involves looping and conditional branching. Probably the most complex of vax instructions was the polyf/polyg instruction, which would compute a polynomial to 7 iterations thus allowing one instruction to compute a trigonometric function. There were also instructions for copying strings up to 64k (and those instructions were interruptable), and instructions to format numbers a la cobol pics. These instructions were generally emulated in the smaller microvaxen and such, but were in microcode on the larger ones. Note that even x86 has a string copy instruction.
Now, here's where you're really wrong. Those instructions weren't put in there as a convenience to humans writing in assembly. Instead, they were put in there as a convenience to compiler writers who could make use of the high-level assembly instructions to ease their code generation. The cobol compiler was almost unnecessary. They had numeric data types to cover it, it was nuts.
They also had instructions to deal with octawords (128 bit integers), and of course the vax allowed accesses of any size integer on any boundary, which could mean a couple of fetches for a particular piece of data. There are assembly instructions to force alignment.
The only non-magic of which I'm aware is that it was "required" that between writing a piece of code into memory and executing it there should be an intervening rei instruction, apparently to clear all caching. I put the word "required" in quotes for a reason. A professor at a college that I attended wrote a very popular Scheme compiler. I mentioned one day to a grad-student friend this requirement, and somehow we ended up getting to the prof. He didn't have that in his compiler and it worked just fine writing to a piece of memory then executing it. I showed him the page in the VAX Architecture Handbook (probably around 276 or 278) and we got a good chuckle.
Anyway, shortly after VAX came out people started to seriously think about simplifying the instruction set and putting more burden on the compilers. I still believe the Alpha is probably the king of risc, ironic given that VAX is the king of cisc. Most of the lessons that VAX taught us were in the negative.
You must be new here...
Do you think some of that IT might be for a hospital? Or, maybe for the law enforcement agencies that are trying to track down terrorists and prevent the next attack? Do you think the injured survivors would have rather had people mourning in the streets for the dead or trying to keep the hospital running, which includes IT?
Mourning is fine, but the living have to get on with life. As Jesus said: "Let the dead bury the dead."
By the way, Israel isn't at war with Lebanon. They're at war with Hezbollah, which is occupying the southern part of Lebanon.
My experience is that I get huge long-term benefits, not just the faster up-front development. The main reason I develop in rails is that I have much easier long-term maintenance, and making changes to applications has been easy. Way easier than the php code that I have out there.
Put another way, I think your rails slam is unjustified.