Sheesh, mod parent funny. He's making a joke about how we're all crying in agony on that bandwith probably being wasted. And combining it with a Star Wars reference.
Anonymous, not 'anonymous'. It's a name, a title, a noun, not an adjective. Regaurdless of how it's defined beyond that, in this case it's members of a disorganization of people. Read some of the rest of the comments to get the gist of what Anonymous is. (I don't identify with them at all, I think the protesting a religion is bad news on general principle.)
Well spoken. Those aliens really were overly distracting for me as they were dragged out far too long. But the rest of the story, the core bit, was very touching and well written. Never thought I'd care a whit for the whales and yet that whole part of the story wrenched my heart around.
This is actually very true. I had a co-worker who had some serious issues with his cell phone (they kept billing him for something he wasn't getting, like 4 months in a row, then cut his service). Well he goes online, gets the CEO's email address and sends him a very polite email asking for help resolving his problem. After a bit of brouhaha on their end, they got all the charges wiped, and upgraded his phone to their 'premium' service for free (or whatever they call it).
Those Presidents and Vice-Presidents phone numbers/emails are out there and if *it is a legitament problem* they will actually usually put the pressure on some one to get this problem fixed. They want that good PR and any news that some thing bad is happening something they never want to hear.
But thats how it works in the real world, rarely do you work on a project by yourself. Right now I'm working at an engineering firm and I have 5 coworkers all working on the same project as me, using ladder logic and drafting documentation. You have to learn to work in groups, from what it sounds like you're getting into the worst groups in the class unfortunately.
Complain to your peers and then the professors if you really feel people arn't doing their fair share. Bargain yourself to working by yourself, but I will attest that group work is almost always the way to go in all real world situations; you just can't think of everything yourself.
The average user doesn't know how to aggressively use Google as a search engine to find nessisary results. We 'nerds' might be able to, but the reason why he used facebook is because it is a readily availble network that allows you to communicate with others in the same class. (Sheesh, I sound like a PR geek).
Don't assume that because an article appears in Slashdot, it's inherently about people who can quote you Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this guy was probably just an average student who found an avenue to create a study group, it happens all the time.
How can you claim that time spent on Web/Social/Communication applications is wasted? Do people in this world work inside of a box completely devoid of human communication? No! Yes, there are issues and problems to work on that this world desperately needs, but social interaction and communication is a part, and I would argue a major part of this age's work force.
How can you communicate with your client, boss, or coworkers excactly what you want and need from them if you have inadequate social skills? Appropriately conducting yourself at work is a key aspect of garnering the respect of your peers as well as making yourself known to those around you. Nay sayers might argue that in an ideal situation you shouldn't have to garner any respect or authority, but this isn't the case in the real world. Social skills are more important than ever, espeically on group projects and in a large workforce, and it's not something that you're taught in class, but rather learned through human interaction in our society. How many of you have learned effectively on how to pick up social cues and nuances? This is a difficult skill, and most likely this program is just another type of class to encourage human interaction and to help the students excel in school.
I truely believe that I should exist in a world and or society that operated on a 28 hour days. I *rarely* feel tired at 10pm every day, even though I have to get up at 6am the next day five times a week. Even on days where I'm not using external stimulation like a computer or TV. (The exception to this is when I'm staying at my grandparents house, then I'm falling asleep by 7pm).
Has anyone else notice this? I can't decide if my body just has too much energy or if I'm almost afraid to lay at night with my thoughts while I attempt to fall asleep. What I mean is, I can't stand just laying there and waiting for sleep, if I lay down, I darn well better be about to pass out, waiting to fall asleep just isn't me! But on a 28 hour day, I could manage an 8-12 hour work shift and get 8 hours of sleep as well as getting enough 'me' time to relax and play.
*sigh* I know this is just wishful thinking, but I'd love to try it for a few months, but good luck finding a job that would allow that!
Well... I wouldn't say we're interesting. And certainly *Not* interesting. So I guess my answer would be that we are the complete absence of interestingness. The line between ying and yang.
This reminds me of something that happened when I was in middle school. Back in abouuut 1993-5 when aol was the dynamite leader of ISPs and dail up was the name of the game. The internet though, was starting on it's huge public boom and one of my best friend's brothers (Sean O'Brian) got in trouble for putting up a website all about his band teacher and how 'dumb' he was. Some how the teacher found out about the tiny website.
He suspended Sean for 3 or 5 days for this out of school defamination, and Sean's family took the school to court. I don't remember much about the whole thing, but I *do* remember Sean eventually won and the school had to back down, it's amusing to me that 12 years later the rest of the nation is still dealing with the same problems. I wonder how long till this gets escalated up to the federal level, if ever? Freedom of speech on the internet is a big deal, do they infringe on the rights of others? I mean, it *is* a public domain...
There is a theory of Evolution just like there is a theory of Gravity, each explaining the factual phenomena for which they are named.
I had an excellent Chemistry teacher in highschool explain this to me, and I think you might befefit from this way of seeing things. The theory of Evolution. It is important to note, a theory can NEVER be proven as fact. What we do is find lots of evidence, as much as you can. And then do tests to support your findings and evidence. We can also take the findings of others, and do the same tests to ideally get the same results.
When you've supported your side over and over and over again, it's common that, in the vernacular, it becomes "fact". But, you can never really prove it as being the absolute truth, it's just not possible. Yes, with thousands of years of observation we can support the Theory(ies) of Gravity... and yet we still find ways to argue about it, whether Gravity is a wave or pulse! What if they discover in 10,000 years that there's a giant bunny rabbit in the center of the earth (or a spagetti monster) pulling us all into it? We base all of our theories on observation and reasoning, but you can never PROVE them "factually", you can simply support them with more observation.
But it's funny, this "compromise" the article is actually making the whole teaching of Evolution more accurate! Well that's based on the indivudual teacher in the classrooms explaining what a 'theory' is, just like another poster said.
Anyways, my point is, we can't ever PROVE anything factually, we can only ever support it with overwhelming evidence and observation. And for all intensive purposes, this then becomes a 'fact'. I think the common usage of these words makes it a bit confusing, but I don't think it's fair to say we're able to prove anything absolutely 100%. Therefore they are theories.
I think the big question here for me is why are they doing this? I suspect security risk, though I'm not sure, but when I was introduced to OS10 I was told that it had the same relationship with Unix that Linux nowadays has. Now this is a bit of a stretch of a comparison, I'm sure, but that's how I'm uniformed. Whats the main difference between OS10 and Linux that causes them to do this?
I feel obliged to say this in the spirit of one-upmanship.
You think they had it bad? Why, 50 years before that they had it even WORSE. Even the ruling monks and merchants beyond slaves and peons. They had not yet discovered fire or the developed the ability to have free will. The country was so poor, I heard that they were unable to afford a ruling class making it worse 4th or 5th world country (on a scale of 1-10). Their country was defined by a big line the neighboring countries put around it, stopping the population from emigrating.
They were so backwards, it honestly its a debate that they even made use of the third dimension at all.
Jerry and Mike did talk about their game and its first initial reaction to the Gamer crowd. Admitting that they fell short of the expectations which they hold many game companies to. They went on to explain that they were overly zealous when they released it earlier than they should have because they were 'excited' about how far it had progressed.
Hopefully when they release the game it will be to the level we all hope it can achieve.
You don't think that its a theory? Science defines itself as everything being a theory based on other theories. Nothing's a proven fact, just theories that have been tested with experiments over and over based on other theories. So when people say that the Big Bang is a theory and not a fact, they are extremely correct, but it is based on experiments and collected data. Personally I think that if you're going to talk about the theory of the Big Bang, you should talk about the theory of God since how can we prove God's existence?
All I'm saying is that if the Big Bang is a theory, then so is God by the nature of science. And if you believe God is absolutely true, as if he's 'proven' to be true? Well then, I think you have to discard the theory part in the Big Bang. (This might be just semantics, but its food for thought)
Erm... isn't Van von hunter.. a graphic novel (comic I'm thinking)? I mean, it's written and drawn by two Americans and maybe my definition of manga is hazy, but I think it has to come from japan, not American comic artists? I met the two guys down in Ohio over this summer on a book signing, so I find this interesting.
I'm trying to think of a good joke to top that one, but for the love of me, I can't. Nothing is so personal and so true to me as that one sentence at this very instance. Roffle my very good waffle.
Why does this whole article sound like (to me) a person who reads your future? His entire attitude, is that akin to that of, "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence". Great example of this, his whole attitude w/t his quote..
"If you're not happy with the amount of money that you're making, do a reality check. Find out what you're worth."
To me it feels like he's saying, "You're worth more than you think you are, you could do better!". Well if everyone thinks they're worth a million bucks, how come we're not all millionares?
I actually asked a good friend of the family about this (a radiologist), why can't they outsource doctors? At the least radiologists, since all they have to do is read xray films! To an extent, some places already do, for instance, in the past doctors had to be on call all night long, ready to read films, sleep very badly, and generally screw up their sleep scheduals. Now they just send the pictures to Australia past 11pm.
But when I asked him about outsourcing, he gave me two good reasons why it'd never happen. THe first is many people prefer to see and know their doctor. To be able to talk with them, I mean, the doctor is probably going to care about you more if he's actually interacting with you! Secondly, is the fact that if hospitals tried this, the doctors would go on strike in an instant. Generally, doctor's don't work "for" a hospital, they are given permission to set up shop inside the hopital in the space provided. What this means, is a group of radiologists do work out of a hospital (in this case, Elyria Hospital near Cleveland) in exchange for the hospital providing them patients. In return, they provide excellent an radiology department:)
Doesn't show that there's nothing wrong w/ the system? If 80% of the programmers are white, and blacks are playing the games longer than whites as it is, what's the problem?? I think it just shows that the current way things are, people from all ethnicities enjoy the games almost equally! If anything needs to change, we need different cultures in the programming and planning aspects of the games.
You've made a good point, but doesn't this just show the ineffectiveness of the UN and it's charter? They have even less power than the Articles had, and no one in the global economy, who has immediate gain, (at this point) is going to want to listen to the UN and whatever suggestions they have. (unless it works out for them financially) Example: A company that would lose millions from following a standard set by the UN isn't going to follow the standard since at worst they get a slap on the wrist! (Or a government that has something to gain)
Maybe my analogy wasn't perfect, but the point was, if "a" central government (ie. the old USA with the Articles, or the UN) sets up a standard for people to live by, without power to back it up, how do they plan to enforce it? I'm not saying the UN should be the central government, but who are they fooling when they set down rules that no one has to follow? Meh, just my two cents.
I just thought of a great example of what I meant in the previous comment (relating to the lack of power of the UN). Lets say, a certain company X (not math, don't worry), operates on a global level, but for whatever reason, doesn't operate to the standards of the UN's council on internet governance (or forum, depending on what Model they decide to impliment). The UN comes in and starts barking up a tree at company X, telling them that they have to change their ways.
But when they try to enforce this, without the support of the country that hosts the said company, they have no way of prosecuting the company at all. Like the parent's suggestion of my previous post, they have no power and are trying to create power for themselves, similar to the Supreme court did a couple hundreds of years ago here ni the US. The real test will be if all those countries are willing to support the UN and prosecute all those company X's.
Maybe google and the whole issue of the chinese firewall, what if the UN says China can't do that, you think they'll listen? I know its not a company, but thats related too.
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Sheesh, mod parent funny. He's making a joke about how we're all crying in agony on that bandwith probably being wasted. And combining it with a Star Wars reference.
Maybe he found some good deals at CompUSA. I mean it *IS* going out of business in the states and found some sweet clearance sales.
Anonymous, not 'anonymous'. It's a name, a title, a noun, not an adjective. Regaurdless of how it's defined beyond that, in this case it's members of a disorganization of people. Read some of the rest of the comments to get the gist of what Anonymous is. (I don't identify with them at all, I think the protesting a religion is bad news on general principle.)
Well spoken. Those aliens really were overly distracting for me as they were dragged out far too long. But the rest of the story, the core bit, was very touching and well written. Never thought I'd care a whit for the whales and yet that whole part of the story wrenched my heart around.
This is actually very true. I had a co-worker who had some serious issues with his cell phone (they kept billing him for something he wasn't getting, like 4 months in a row, then cut his service). Well he goes online, gets the CEO's email address and sends him a very polite email asking for help resolving his problem. After a bit of brouhaha on their end, they got all the charges wiped, and upgraded his phone to their 'premium' service for free (or whatever they call it).
Those Presidents and Vice-Presidents phone numbers/emails are out there and if *it is a legitament problem* they will actually usually put the pressure on some one to get this problem fixed. They want that good PR and any news that some thing bad is happening something they never want to hear.
But thats how it works in the real world, rarely do you work on a project by yourself. Right now I'm working at an engineering firm and I have 5 coworkers all working on the same project as me, using ladder logic and drafting documentation. You have to learn to work in groups, from what it sounds like you're getting into the worst groups in the class unfortunately.
Complain to your peers and then the professors if you really feel people arn't doing their fair share. Bargain yourself to working by yourself, but I will attest that group work is almost always the way to go in all real world situations; you just can't think of everything yourself.
The average user doesn't know how to aggressively use Google as a search engine to find nessisary results. We 'nerds' might be able to, but the reason why he used facebook is because it is a readily availble network that allows you to communicate with others in the same class. (Sheesh, I sound like a PR geek).
Don't assume that because an article appears in Slashdot, it's inherently about people who can quote you Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this guy was probably just an average student who found an avenue to create a study group, it happens all the time.
How can you claim that time spent on Web/Social/Communication applications is wasted? Do people in this world work inside of a box completely devoid of human communication? No! Yes, there are issues and problems to work on that this world desperately needs, but social interaction and communication is a part, and I would argue a major part of this age's work force.
How can you communicate with your client, boss, or coworkers excactly what you want and need from them if you have inadequate social skills? Appropriately conducting yourself at work is a key aspect of garnering the respect of your peers as well as making yourself known to those around you. Nay sayers might argue that in an ideal situation you shouldn't have to garner any respect or authority, but this isn't the case in the real world. Social skills are more important than ever, espeically on group projects and in a large workforce, and it's not something that you're taught in class, but rather learned through human interaction in our society. How many of you have learned effectively on how to pick up social cues and nuances? This is a difficult skill, and most likely this program is just another type of class to encourage human interaction and to help the students excel in school.
I truely believe that I should exist in a world and or society that operated on a 28 hour days. I *rarely* feel tired at 10pm every day, even though I have to get up at 6am the next day five times a week. Even on days where I'm not using external stimulation like a computer or TV. (The exception to this is when I'm staying at my grandparents house, then I'm falling asleep by 7pm).
Has anyone else notice this? I can't decide if my body just has too much energy or if I'm almost afraid to lay at night with my thoughts while I attempt to fall asleep. What I mean is, I can't stand just laying there and waiting for sleep, if I lay down, I darn well better be about to pass out, waiting to fall asleep just isn't me! But on a 28 hour day, I could manage an 8-12 hour work shift and get 8 hours of sleep as well as getting enough 'me' time to relax and play.
*sigh* I know this is just wishful thinking, but I'd love to try it for a few months, but good luck finding a job that would allow that!
Well... I wouldn't say we're interesting. And certainly *Not* interesting. So I guess my answer would be that we are the complete absence of interestingness. The line between ying and yang.
He suspended Sean for 3 or 5 days for this out of school defamination, and Sean's family took the school to court. I don't remember much about the whole thing, but I *do* remember Sean eventually won and the school had to back down, it's amusing to me that 12 years later the rest of the nation is still dealing with the same problems. I wonder how long till this gets escalated up to the federal level, if ever? Freedom of speech on the internet is a big deal, do they infringe on the rights of others? I mean, it *is* a public domain...
I had an excellent Chemistry teacher in highschool explain this to me, and I think you might befefit from this way of seeing things. The theory of Evolution. It is important to note, a theory can NEVER be proven as fact. What we do is find lots of evidence, as much as you can. And then do tests to support your findings and evidence. We can also take the findings of others, and do the same tests to ideally get the same results.
When you've supported your side over and over and over again, it's common that, in the vernacular, it becomes "fact". But, you can never really prove it as being the absolute truth, it's just not possible. Yes, with thousands of years of observation we can support the Theory(ies) of Gravity... and yet we still find ways to argue about it, whether Gravity is a wave or pulse! What if they discover in 10,000 years that there's a giant bunny rabbit in the center of the earth (or a spagetti monster) pulling us all into it? We base all of our theories on observation and reasoning, but you can never PROVE them "factually", you can simply support them with more observation.
But it's funny, this "compromise" the article is actually making the whole teaching of Evolution more accurate! Well that's based on the indivudual teacher in the classrooms explaining what a 'theory' is, just like another poster said.
Anyways, my point is, we can't ever PROVE anything factually, we can only ever support it with overwhelming evidence and observation. And for all intensive purposes, this then becomes a 'fact'. I think the common usage of these words makes it a bit confusing, but I don't think it's fair to say we're able to prove anything absolutely 100%. Therefore they are theories.
I think everyone's primary fear is that they WON'T rework the system and companies will continue to abuse it.
I think the big question here for me is why are they doing this? I suspect security risk, though I'm not sure, but when I was introduced to OS10 I was told that it had the same relationship with Unix that Linux nowadays has. Now this is a bit of a stretch of a comparison, I'm sure, but that's how I'm uniformed. Whats the main difference between OS10 and Linux that causes them to do this?
You think they had it bad? Why, 50 years before that they had it even WORSE. Even the ruling monks and merchants beyond slaves and peons. They had not yet discovered fire or the developed the ability to have free will. The country was so poor, I heard that they were unable to afford a ruling class making it worse 4th or 5th world country (on a scale of 1-10). Their country was defined by a big line the neighboring countries put around it, stopping the population from emigrating.
They were so backwards, it honestly its a debate that they even made use of the third dimension at all.
Hopefully when they release the game it will be to the level we all hope it can achieve.
You don't think that its a theory? Science defines itself as everything being a theory based on other theories. Nothing's a proven fact, just theories that have been tested with experiments over and over based on other theories. So when people say that the Big Bang is a theory and not a fact, they are extremely correct, but it is based on experiments and collected data. Personally I think that if you're going to talk about the theory of the Big Bang, you should talk about the theory of God since how can we prove God's existence?
All I'm saying is that if the Big Bang is a theory, then so is God by the nature of science. And if you believe God is absolutely true, as if he's 'proven' to be true? Well then, I think you have to discard the theory part in the Big Bang. (This might be just semantics, but its food for thought)
Erm... isn't Van von hunter.. a graphic novel (comic I'm thinking)? I mean, it's written and drawn by two Americans and maybe my definition of manga is hazy, but I think it has to come from japan, not American comic artists? I met the two guys down in Ohio over this summer on a book signing, so I find this interesting.
I'm trying to think of a good joke to top that one, but for the love of me, I can't. Nothing is so personal and so true to me as that one sentence at this very instance. Roffle my very good waffle.
Why does this whole article sound like (to me) a person who reads your future? His entire attitude, is that akin to that of, "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence". Great example of this, his whole attitude w/t his quote..
"If you're not happy with the amount of money that you're making, do a reality check. Find out what you're worth."
To me it feels like he's saying, "You're worth more than you think you are, you could do better!". Well if everyone thinks they're worth a million bucks, how come we're not all millionares?
I actually asked a good friend of the family about this (a radiologist), why can't they outsource doctors? At the least radiologists, since all they have to do is read xray films! To an extent, some places already do, for instance, in the past doctors had to be on call all night long, ready to read films, sleep very badly, and generally screw up their sleep scheduals. Now they just send the pictures to Australia past 11pm.
:)
But when I asked him about outsourcing, he gave me two good reasons why it'd never happen. THe first is many people prefer to see and know their doctor. To be able to talk with them, I mean, the doctor is probably going to care about you more if he's actually interacting with you! Secondly, is the fact that if hospitals tried this, the doctors would go on strike in an instant. Generally, doctor's don't work "for" a hospital, they are given permission to set up shop inside the hopital in the space provided. What this means, is a group of radiologists do work out of a hospital (in this case, Elyria Hospital near Cleveland) in exchange for the hospital providing them patients. In return, they provide excellent an radiology department
Doesn't show that there's nothing wrong w/ the system? If 80% of the programmers are white, and blacks are playing the games longer than whites as it is, what's the problem?? I think it just shows that the current way things are, people from all ethnicities enjoy the games almost equally! If anything needs to change, we need different cultures in the programming and planning aspects of the games.
Three I bet.
What is your name?
Which OS do you have on your home computer?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unaladen swallow?
You've made a good point, but doesn't this just show the ineffectiveness of the UN and it's charter? They have even less power than the Articles had, and no one in the global economy, who has immediate gain, (at this point) is going to want to listen to the UN and whatever suggestions they have. (unless it works out for them financially) Example: A company that would lose millions from following a standard set by the UN isn't going to follow the standard since at worst they get a slap on the wrist! (Or a government that has something to gain)
Maybe my analogy wasn't perfect, but the point was, if "a" central government (ie. the old USA with the Articles, or the UN) sets up a standard for people to live by, without power to back it up, how do they plan to enforce it? I'm not saying the UN should be the central government, but who are they fooling when they set down rules that no one has to follow? Meh, just my two cents.
I just thought of a great example of what I meant in the previous comment (relating to the lack of power of the UN). Lets say, a certain company X (not math, don't worry), operates on a global level, but for whatever reason, doesn't operate to the standards of the UN's council on internet governance (or forum, depending on what Model they decide to impliment). The UN comes in and starts barking up a tree at company X, telling them that they have to change their ways.
But when they try to enforce this, without the support of the country that hosts the said company, they have no way of prosecuting the company at all. Like the parent's suggestion of my previous post, they have no power and are trying to create power for themselves, similar to the Supreme court did a couple hundreds of years ago here ni the US. The real test will be if all those countries are willing to support the UN and prosecute all those company X's.
Maybe google and the whole issue of the chinese firewall, what if the UN says China can't do that, you think they'll listen? I know its not a company, but thats related too.