Assuming that he was making the $60K, how is it fair to tell him he can't do his job while he's at the university? For instance, I have a few web development contracts... should I have to go out and buy a dial-up service plan to FTP the files up to the server? After all, I'm using the university services for money.
I don't know about your school, but here, that just applies to things like the web space we're given, not the bandwidth.
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Very well spoken... you basically took my thoughts and expressed them far more eloquently than I could have. Bravo!
But, now that you have, would you care to explain why, if the lives of Iraqi civilians are not as important as any other, we are going to such lengths to free them from the well-documented and oppressive rule of a genocidal megalomaniac?
That's funny... I thought this was about the weapons of mass destruction. That's what I hear, anyway.
So far, yes, the military has gone out of it's way to prevent needless Iraqi civilian deaths, as far as we can tell. Let's not forget that all that's happened is one attack of opportunity. Let's also not forget how much the United States struggled to keep the number of casualties in the first Gulf War under wraps.
Quite simply, I can't trust the government not to kill innocent civilians in Iraq when it could be avoided. Why? Afghanistan Civilian Casualties. If we do better this time, I will retract my statement. However, I suspect that as time goes on, our concern over civilian casualties will drop.
"At the same time, we are reasonably confident that the total number of civilians killed directly by allied attacks did not exceed several thousand, with an upper limit of perhaps between 2,500 and 3,000 Iraqi dead. These numbers, we note, do not include the substantially larger number of deaths that can be attributed to malnutrition, disease and lack of medical care caused by a combination of the U.N.-mandated embargo and the allies' destruction of Iraq's electrical system, with its severe secondary effects (see Chapter Four)." -- Human Rights Watch. The quote is in the intro.
Note that we bombed a country back to the stone age for 2500 to 3000 civilian casualties (and caused about 3000-3400 there).
You mean that "1,2,3,4... we don't want your racist war?" and various permutations?
Yeah... how is viewing the life of an Iraqi civilian as fundamentally less important than the life of an American civilian not racist?
This, of course, does not even touch on the predeliction of some to call the Iraqis "towel-wearing sand niggers." Nope, not racist at all.
I can agree with the 'M' rating being too broad. For example... why does Diablo have a M rating? Sure, you click and kill things, but it's no worse graphically than, say, Baldur's Gate. The problem is that the 'AO' rating is not used enough. 'AO', or Adults Only, was intended to be the one that only adults could buy.
Now, I've played Grand Theft Auto 3. I can understand why someone under 13 shouldn't be playing it. But after that point, I think you're just being overprotective of your child. Maybe my views will change when I have kids of my own, but that's impossible to say.
I call FUD. They will not need to provide the students with computers that run Linux. Buy a site license for Exceed (or make each student buy his own if they need it) and be done with it. My school uses Solaris for the backend of the network, has X-terms in most of the computer labs, but somehow the Windows XP computers still manage to integrate just fine with the network.
This is all well and good, but why can't we promote hybrid cars in the meantime? I for one was pissed when I found out the Bush Administration was ending the programs for hyrbrid cars and shifting the money to hydrogen cars that won't be around for at least 10 years.
How much you wanna bet the funding for those end just before we get to the point where they might be useful, so that we can persue the next big thing in energy efficiency (all the while sticking with the crappy methods we use now)?
Let's say McDonalds has a monopoly on the fast food market. Should they be able to say "Fuck the customer, if they want a burger, they will buy our orange drink crap too"? US (an apparently EU) law says no. You aren't allowed to leverage your monopoly to beat your competition. To continue with the analogy, if I already have a drink that I like, I shouldn't need to use their proprietary orange drink crap with my burger.
How about independence, nimrod? Remember the American Revolution?
And remember the Lousiana Purchase? Who the fuck do you think we purchased it from?
If you want to point out that "the french didn't give us that", let me stop you there and point out that Microsoft probably didn't give you Impossible Creatures or Asheron's Call for free either.
"In fact, some of the best IT folks I've met in the past are the types who teach themselves the skills as a hobby, not the ones who major in CS for the money."
Exactly... unfortunately, you seem to have missed your own point. Someone who has enough passion for their field to go out and teach it to themselves is obviously going to be better than someone who doesn't care and is only doing it for the money. This holds true in any field, not just CS.
I'm a CS major, and I love it. I actually enjoy doing the projects and assignments, since that way I can just code without having to come up with the idea of what to code to begin with. What can I say, sometimes I want to write some code, but have zero inspiration.
I think I'd have just the same problem with taking business classes as those hypothetical people who majored in CS just for the money.
Actually, I think there is. My Dad got a five? disk boxed set for Christmas.... it's very distinctive. It's a cube significantly larger than a normal DVD case (it has normal ones inside). I agree about the fact that everyone should have known about it far in advance. It wasn't like Nintendo with the Gameboy Advance SP that came out of nowhere.
I honestly don't understand the applications for this. Maybe it's just because I'm reading the review rather than the actual book, but it does'nt feel all that useful.
I can understand the benefits of OOP over standard top-down programming, but I'm failing to see where this coding methology gives you any gains.
Ever buy a Resident Evil game? Or Metal Gear Solid? Or Medal of Honor? Panzer Dragoon Orta? There are actually a large number of highly successful games that are about that long.
No, I haven't bought any Resident Evil games. Or any of the other ones you listed first. Why? Because they're too damn short. I'm not going to shell out $50 for a game that isn't going to last me more than a few days.
And you know what? You can go ahead and buy all those games... I'll be just as entertained by the one RPG, and have saved about $300.
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with this. Why should I have to pay $50 for a game that will only keep me occupied for 8-10 hours? That just seems ridiculous to me... I don't think I would buy a game that short. It's not like you have to play it continuously, you know. Most of these games have this nifty 'save' feature.
Perhaps if prices were lowered, I could understand wanting more shorter games, but still... I couldn't help but feel ripped off after the abrupt cliffhanger ending to a certain GBA RPG that will remain nameless.
If you ask me, making 'shorter games' is actually just an attempt to make more money.
I found it interesting that commercial mining of asteroids was mentioned in the third article. Sure, raw materials are plentiful in asteroids, but wouldn't the cost of getting there far outweigh the benefits of the plentiful resources? I guess this would be practical if/when we run out of certain ores, or as an "While we're here, we might as well" measure, but I can't see it going anywhere otherwise until the price of space travel drops dramatically.
I don't understand why revamped PC-cards are being pushed for desktop computing. I can understand increasing the bus speed on PCI cards (faster real-time TV encoding... yay!), but why does this need to happen in cards the size of two quarters?
Is the goal to make it so that users with two PCs can carry peripherals from one computer to the other? I would also hope that there will be legacy ports. I'm not planning on buying a new chip for a while, but I really don't feel like having to buy brand new hardware when I do. I'll have to buy a new video card (no AGP port), but they could at least put a few standard PCI ports on the mobo so I could slap in my more expensive expansion cards.
I feel incredibly geeky for pointing this out, but in Final Fantasy VI, Kefka didn't move towers. He moved the three statues of the Goddesses out of alignment, fucking up the World of Balance.
God damn, I need a life.
In all I've read about the Berman bill, I've never completely understood why vigilantism was considered OK in this instance. For instance, I would not be allowed to shoot a man should he rape my girlfriend; nor would I be able to steal back my property from a robber. Why are copyright holders special? Why is copyright infringement so heinous?
I'm glad this is finally happening... too bad it doesn't say how much this thing costs. Speaking as a broke college student, I can't afford to pay a ridiculous premium for a small gain in audio quality.
Seriously, it seems pretty sweet just from reading the page. But how come we've never heard this mentioned before? Have I just missed all previous mentions, or did this so-called 'world's fastest supercomputer' just suddenly come to be out of nothingness?
As for it being useful further than the immediate future, I call bullshit. Even today we still are lacking in the knowledge to make an accurate model of the Earth. We simply don't have all the information to break it all down into mathematical formulas (again, unless there was some monumental leap in human awareness that I missed).
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Doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
3. The Slashdot Effect: Everyday netizens revolutionize newsgathering
"Happens anytime Slashdot links to your site - "It's like getting hit with a tsunami," as a sysadmin once told us. When geek-news website Slashdot puts up a link to an interesting news item online, the rush of visitors can savage even the most heavily fortified servers -- producing millions of hits in a few hours. Stephen Adler's "The Slashdot Effect" paper, released in February 1999, found it caused ten-fold surges in traffic -- producing temporary, floating audiences that could rival CNN in size.
Which is precisely the point. Slashdot's arrival in 1997 wasn't just another high-tech community; it was the future of newsgathering. With thousands of techies scouring the net for stories, Slashdot's volunteer base is bigger than any major media outlet-helping them regularly break news, such as Transmeta's super-secret Crusoe chip or Microsoft's anti-Linux memos. "
Too bad they couldn't forsee their immienent doom.
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Assuming that he was making the $60K, how is it fair to tell him he can't do his job while he's at the university? For instance, I have a few web development contracts... should I have to go out and buy a dial-up service plan to FTP the files up to the server? After all, I'm using the university services for money.
I don't know about your school, but here, that just applies to things like the web space we're given, not the bandwidth.
Very well spoken... you basically took my thoughts and expressed them far more eloquently than I could have. Bravo!
But, now that you have, would you care to explain why, if the lives of Iraqi civilians are not as important as any other, we are going to such lengths to free them from the well-documented and oppressive rule of a genocidal megalomaniac?
That's funny... I thought this was about the weapons of mass destruction. That's what I hear, anyway.
So far, yes, the military has gone out of it's way to prevent needless Iraqi civilian deaths, as far as we can tell. Let's not forget that all that's happened is one attack of opportunity. Let's also not forget how much the United States struggled to keep the number of casualties in the first Gulf War under wraps.
Quite simply, I can't trust the government not to kill innocent civilians in Iraq when it could be avoided. Why? Afghanistan Civilian Casualties. If we do better this time, I will retract my statement. However, I suspect that as time goes on, our concern over civilian casualties will drop.
The "some" was not referring to members in the Administration, but rather to ordinary people. Sorry for the confusion.
You didn't address the main point of my post, however: the fact that civilian casualties are viewed as less important if they are Iraqi.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
"At the same time, we are reasonably confident that the total number of civilians killed directly by allied attacks did not exceed several thousand, with an upper limit of perhaps between 2,500 and 3,000 Iraqi dead. These numbers, we note, do not include the substantially larger number of deaths that can be attributed to malnutrition, disease and lack of medical care caused by a combination of the U.N.-mandated embargo and the allies' destruction of Iraq's electrical system, with its severe secondary effects (see Chapter Four)." -- Human Rights Watch. The quote is in the intro.
Note that we bombed a country back to the stone age for 2500 to 3000 civilian casualties (and caused about 3000-3400 there).
You mean that "1,2,3,4... we don't want your racist war?" and various permutations? Yeah... how is viewing the life of an Iraqi civilian as fundamentally less important than the life of an American civilian not racist? This, of course, does not even touch on the predeliction of some to call the Iraqis "towel-wearing sand niggers." Nope, not racist at all.
I can agree with the 'M' rating being too broad. For example... why does Diablo have a M rating? Sure, you click and kill things, but it's no worse graphically than, say, Baldur's Gate. The problem is that the 'AO' rating is not used enough. 'AO', or Adults Only, was intended to be the one that only adults could buy.
Now, I've played Grand Theft Auto 3. I can understand why someone under 13 shouldn't be playing it. But after that point, I think you're just being overprotective of your child. Maybe my views will change when I have kids of my own, but that's impossible to say.
Similar example: The College of William & Mary, which happens to be an excellent state university. It works both ways.
I call FUD. They will not need to provide the students with computers that run Linux. Buy a site license for Exceed (or make each student buy his own if they need it) and be done with it. My school uses Solaris for the backend of the network, has X-terms in most of the computer labs, but somehow the Windows XP computers still manage to integrate just fine with the network.
This is all well and good, but why can't we promote hybrid cars in the meantime? I for one was pissed when I found out the Bush Administration was ending the programs for hyrbrid cars and shifting the money to hydrogen cars that won't be around for at least 10 years.
How much you wanna bet the funding for those end just before we get to the point where they might be useful, so that we can persue the next big thing in energy efficiency (all the while sticking with the crappy methods we use now)?
Let's say McDonalds has a monopoly on the fast food market. Should they be able to say "Fuck the customer, if they want a burger, they will buy our orange drink crap too"? US (an apparently EU) law says no. You aren't allowed to leverage your monopoly to beat your competition. To continue with the analogy, if I already have a drink that I like, I shouldn't need to use their proprietary orange drink crap with my burger.
How about independence, nimrod? Remember the American Revolution? And remember the Lousiana Purchase? Who the fuck do you think we purchased it from? If you want to point out that "the french didn't give us that", let me stop you there and point out that Microsoft probably didn't give you Impossible Creatures or Asheron's Call for free either.
I think this one is a better example of not wanting to wear clothes, honestly.
"In fact, some of the best IT folks I've met in the past are the types who teach themselves the skills as a hobby, not the ones who major in CS for the money."
Exactly... unfortunately, you seem to have missed your own point. Someone who has enough passion for their field to go out and teach it to themselves is obviously going to be better than someone who doesn't care and is only doing it for the money. This holds true in any field, not just CS.
I'm a CS major, and I love it. I actually enjoy doing the projects and assignments, since that way I can just code without having to come up with the idea of what to code to begin with. What can I say, sometimes I want to write some code, but have zero inspiration.
I think I'd have just the same problem with taking business classes as those hypothetical people who majored in CS just for the money.
Actually, I think there is. My Dad got a five? disk boxed set for Christmas.... it's very distinctive. It's a cube significantly larger than a normal DVD case (it has normal ones inside). I agree about the fact that everyone should have known about it far in advance. It wasn't like Nintendo with the Gameboy Advance SP that came out of nowhere.
I honestly don't understand the applications for this. Maybe it's just because I'm reading the review rather than the actual book, but it does'nt feel all that useful.
I can understand the benefits of OOP over standard top-down programming, but I'm failing to see where this coding methology gives you any gains.
No, I haven't bought any Resident Evil games. Or any of the other ones you listed first. Why? Because they're too damn short. I'm not going to shell out $50 for a game that isn't going to last me more than a few days.
And you know what? You can go ahead and buy all those games... I'll be just as entertained by the one RPG, and have saved about $300.
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with this. Why should I have to pay $50 for a game that will only keep me occupied for 8-10 hours? That just seems ridiculous to me... I don't think I would buy a game that short. It's not like you have to play it continuously, you know. Most of these games have this nifty 'save' feature.
Perhaps if prices were lowered, I could understand wanting more shorter games, but still... I couldn't help but feel ripped off after the abrupt cliffhanger ending to a certain GBA RPG that will remain nameless.
If you ask me, making 'shorter games' is actually just an attempt to make more money.
Makes me want to break out the +1 Vorpal Sword.
I found it interesting that commercial mining of asteroids was mentioned in the third article. Sure, raw materials are plentiful in asteroids, but wouldn't the cost of getting there far outweigh the benefits of the plentiful resources? I guess this would be practical if/when we run out of certain ores, or as an "While we're here, we might as well" measure, but I can't see it going anywhere otherwise until the price of space travel drops dramatically.
I don't understand why revamped PC-cards are being pushed for desktop computing. I can understand increasing the bus speed on PCI cards (faster real-time TV encoding... yay!), but why does this need to happen in cards the size of two quarters?
Is the goal to make it so that users with two PCs can carry peripherals from one computer to the other? I would also hope that there will be legacy ports. I'm not planning on buying a new chip for a while, but I really don't feel like having to buy brand new hardware when I do. I'll have to buy a new video card (no AGP port), but they could at least put a few standard PCI ports on the mobo so I could slap in my more expensive expansion cards.
I feel incredibly geeky for pointing this out, but in Final Fantasy VI, Kefka didn't move towers. He moved the three statues of the Goddesses out of alignment, fucking up the World of Balance. God damn, I need a life.
In all I've read about the Berman bill, I've never completely understood why vigilantism was considered OK in this instance. For instance, I would not be allowed to shoot a man should he rape my girlfriend; nor would I be able to steal back my property from a robber. Why are copyright holders special? Why is copyright infringement so heinous?
I'm glad this is finally happening... too bad it doesn't say how much this thing costs. Speaking as a broke college student, I can't afford to pay a ridiculous premium for a small gain in audio quality.
Seriously, it seems pretty sweet just from reading the page. But how come we've never heard this mentioned before? Have I just missed all previous mentions, or did this so-called 'world's fastest supercomputer' just suddenly come to be out of nothingness? As for it being useful further than the immediate future, I call bullshit. Even today we still are lacking in the knowledge to make an accurate model of the Earth. We simply don't have all the information to break it all down into mathematical formulas (again, unless there was some monumental leap in human awareness that I missed).
Doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
Too bad they couldn't forsee their immienent doom.