It's the way we've set up the system. You go to school so someone can tell you the facts, and present practical math and science concepts in the driest, most abstract way possible.
Every time I talk to a kid and they say something like "Algebra sucks. I'll never use this again in my life" I want to jump out of my skin. And hell, I didn't know it myself, because I was taught the same way. I just ended up in a lot of fields, not even complex fields, where you had to have a grasp on practical math.
If you teach the answers then people are always going to be looking for someone to tell them the answers. If you teach people how to find the answers themselves using manuals, newsgroups, and, if all else fails, their damn brain, then you'll end up with well educated people.
I'm glad they backed up their allegations with facts and figures...Oh wait.
Every time I see an article like this, I view it as utter crap. There are no numbers, there are no sources, and it utterly contradicts my daily experience...Well, except for the "stability of regular unix" bit, which is pretty much a no-brainer.
I run linux in a work environment, I run linux in my home environment. I get occasional hardware failures, but that's about it. Applications don't lock things up irretrivably. It needs less babying than my windows systems do, and I generally run more different applications on the linux machines than I do on the windows machines.
Windows 2003 is better than 2000, but this article is fact-free fud.
Eh. I think most people recognize that doing good to someone who is themselves evil is one of the hallmarks of true goodness. Running into a burning house to save your best friend is good, but running into a house to save your worst enemy is fricking heroic.
If you notice, you always see that crap in hollywood...When they're trying to paint a character as pure good, that character is utterly incapable of finishing off the bad guy until some random environmental factor (usually triggered by the evil guys continuing attempts to kill the good guy) kills him off.
I think that is the point where "pure good" transitions into stupidity...The greater good almost always requires you to be proactive and try and accomplish something (e.g doing good instead of just being good), but it is extremely difficult to maintain purety when you're out there trying to accomplish things; actions have too many consequences.
Interesting to watch Google trying to find the balance there.
It's misleading to even refer to him as Bi. Back then such distinctions didn't exist. Hell, it's only been a few hundred years since we decided they did!
Really, you can't refer to him sexually as anything other than "not abnormal for the time period". In Greece they didn't have contraception, but they did have strong motivations for limiting their population (scarcity of arable land), so it's not surprising to see a population gravitate towards same-sex encounters for casual sex play. Despite what the radicals would have you believe, it's not uncommon behavior among animal populations.
Don't even get me going. The philosophy section is equally vile if you're interested in real philosophy, and not new-age religion dressed up as philosophy. And for an actual book on math? Good luck. Next time try Amazon.com.
So you're saying a mature OS, like XP, for example, should play most games from previous versions of Windows?
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have found this to be anything but the case. They break games from one version of Direct X to another, more less the whole OS.
Microsoft has never shown themselves to be worried about breaking backward compatibility. The compatibility mode built into XP is a joke, and not a funny one.
I like to think of it as my safety deposit box...I do some thinking about the stuff that I absolutely have to have...Everything else stays on my home network, which is pretty solid. I don't worry too much about home stuff. I'm not a video/music/graphic guy, so my stuff is low-bulk enough that I can burn a cd every month or so to back up important stuff, and not really worry about losing much.
I use my gmail account for that. Encrypt it, mail it to yourself, and let Google back it up. I can fit almost all the really important stuff in 2 gigs. As for the rest of it, I'll just have to hope my house doesn't burn down.
Well, the sad thing is, they don't own any of the technology. It's not even a technology as such, as much as it is a design philosophy-shift based on percieved public demand and commonly available tools. There is no reason we couldn't have done Ajax 5 years ago, it's just that Javascript is more mature, and more reliably supported in browsers, and the real strengths of XML are better understood now than they were then.
Seems like all they want is the ability to host exclusive conferences on their trademarked topic, which is fine sort of, but I'm irked enough by companies abusing IP law that I'm not even going to think about paying to go to a conference where the topic is as vague as "Web 2.0" and the guys who run it are suing people who try to use "Web 2.0". Screw that. I'll go across the street to the Ajax confrence. At least people agree what that means even if it's overused.
In newspaper work, journalists are commonly forbidden from using nouns that originated as product names...For example, you can't use "Kleenex" or "Frisbee" or "Rollerblades" because of litigous companies that are jealous of their trademarks.
I suppose it's because it's pretty easy to lose a trademark, so you have to be careful, or people could be making "Bob's Frisbee's" and "Joe's Rollerblades" instead of being forced to use the less sexy descriptors.
What is the point of coining a meaningless buzzword to describe a perfectly normal evolution of technology, if you're then going to sue everyone who uses it? It's not like Web 2.0 has any hard assets or IP.
That's like Google suing everyone who uses the verbed form of their name.
Heh yea, my name is really common, and seems to be shared by a lot of really staid people so my few exploits under my real name don't show up against the general backdrop.
If a prospective employer knew enough to look in the right place, it would be a different story. I'm not ashamed to own up to anything I've put online, but I don't necesarrily want to have a person who doesn't know me well forming a snap judgement on a random sampling of material.
You forget the rest of the fable: When the fox realized he couldn't get the grapes, he walked off, saying to himself, "They were probably sour anyway."
This is arguably analagous to Microsoft saying (about a format they can't control, which has been approved by the ISO as their open XML hasn't yet), "We'd support it but it's too slow"
This is so close to true "tv on demand" that the networks have to be crapping their pants.
How do you justify marking up your "must see tv ads" for those crap shows that you slip between the good shows, if it can be proven that people watch the good shows on a completely different day, and don't watch the crap shows at all? If they have to flat rate, or discount their ads, that'll be a huge chunk of their profit.
I got two weeks of in-school suspension when I was 16 for writing a letter to the editor of the local paper under my own name. Public school, etc, etc.
It taught me an important lesson which is: don't write under your own goddamn name!
Seriously. I don't condone what's happening here, but people put stuff out there under their own names that blows my mind. This is the freaking information age, okay? People are going to google you first thing, and they're going to read what you write, they're going to make opinions about it, and if you've not been careful, it's going to be your ass! The stuff is going to be viewed by people you're dating, people you're trying to work for, people who are trying to steal your identity...Don't put your name on it!
It's not like you can't point people to your blog/writing if you want them to read it, and it's not like you can't put things out there to be read under a different name. But putting it out there under your own name, especially if you're a minor, is a bad idea.
Wow, I wish they'd done that at my high school. If, hypothetically, someone punched you in the face, you fell down, and on the way back up gave them a world class uppercut to the nuts, and then spent some quality time kicking them while they were down, your punishment was much more severe even though the other guy started the fight.
I think it's more simple than that. Humanity has a herd instinct which is unusually inclusive; we domesticate other animals, and feel emotional attachment toward them. We make tools, and form emotional attachments to them.
No other animal species does this. I have a pocket knife I've carried for years...I've lost it a time or two, and every time I've gone to crazy lengths trying to find it again. Other animals find something and carry it around until it gets stinky, then they roll in it, and go away. Even animals that have basic tool using behavior don't seem to hold on to a "good" tool, the way we do.
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It's the way we've set up the system. You go to school so someone can tell you the facts, and present practical math and science concepts in the driest, most abstract way possible.
Every time I talk to a kid and they say something like "Algebra sucks. I'll never use this again in my life" I want to jump out of my skin. And hell, I didn't know it myself, because I was taught the same way. I just ended up in a lot of fields, not even complex fields, where you had to have a grasp on practical math.
If you teach the answers then people are always going to be looking for someone to tell them the answers. If you teach people how to find the answers themselves using manuals, newsgroups, and, if all else fails, their damn brain, then you'll end up with well educated people.
Preventing them from playing involves a whole lot of things you really don't want the government in control of.
On the other hand, I see no problems with preventing people who do not meet the age requirements on the box from purchasing games.
That would be because it's career suicide.
"Why is our server down?"
"Well, I was sitting in front of it browsing the web and..."
"You're fired."
I'm glad they backed up their allegations with facts and figures...Oh wait.
Every time I see an article like this, I view it as utter crap. There are no numbers, there are no sources, and it utterly contradicts my daily experience...Well, except for the "stability of regular unix" bit, which is pretty much a no-brainer.
I run linux in a work environment, I run linux in my home environment. I get occasional hardware failures, but that's about it. Applications don't lock things up irretrivably. It needs less babying than my windows systems do, and I generally run more different applications on the linux machines than I do on the windows machines.
Windows 2003 is better than 2000, but this article is fact-free fud.
Eh. I think most people recognize that doing good to someone who is themselves evil is one of the hallmarks of true goodness. Running into a burning house to save your best friend is good, but running into a house to save your worst enemy is fricking heroic.
If you notice, you always see that crap in hollywood...When they're trying to paint a character as pure good, that character is utterly incapable of finishing off the bad guy until some random environmental factor (usually triggered by the evil guys continuing attempts to kill the good guy) kills him off.
I think that is the point where "pure good" transitions into stupidity...The greater good almost always requires you to be proactive and try and accomplish something (e.g doing good instead of just being good), but it is extremely difficult to maintain purety when you're out there trying to accomplish things; actions have too many consequences.
Interesting to watch Google trying to find the balance there.
Heh. Yea, my first thought was "Viral CDs a problem for Rest of Us"
It's misleading to even refer to him as Bi. Back then such distinctions didn't exist. Hell, it's only been a few hundred years since we decided they did!
Really, you can't refer to him sexually as anything other than "not abnormal for the time period". In Greece they didn't have contraception, but they did have strong motivations for limiting their population (scarcity of arable land), so it's not surprising to see a population gravitate towards same-sex encounters for casual sex play. Despite what the radicals would have you believe, it's not uncommon behavior among animal populations.
Don't even get me going. The philosophy section is equally vile if you're interested in real philosophy, and not new-age religion dressed up as philosophy. And for an actual book on math? Good luck. Next time try Amazon.com.
So you're saying a mature OS, like XP, for example, should play most games from previous versions of Windows?
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have found this to be anything but the case. They break games from one version of Direct X to another, more less the whole OS.
Microsoft has never shown themselves to be worried about breaking backward compatibility. The compatibility mode built into XP is a joke, and not a funny one.
I like to think of it as my safety deposit box...I do some thinking about the stuff that I absolutely have to have...Everything else stays on my home network, which is pretty solid. I don't worry too much about home stuff. I'm not a video/music/graphic guy, so my stuff is low-bulk enough that I can burn a cd every month or so to back up important stuff, and not really worry about losing much.
I use my gmail account for that. Encrypt it, mail it to yourself, and let Google back it up. I can fit almost all the really important stuff in 2 gigs. As for the rest of it, I'll just have to hope my house doesn't burn down.
If a chicken comes out of an egg, it must have been a chicken egg. It couldn't very well come out of any other kind of egg could it?
It's a false dichotomy. It's also poorly written above, which is why the parent is correct. It should be:
"P == !P" or "P!=P" or "P == ~P" or "P equals not P"
Whatever syntax you'd prefer. Anyway, a contradiction that turns out not to be a contradiction doesn't invalidate the law of contraditions.
Philosopher.
Back in the day, science was considered to be a subset of philosophy. If you asked Newton what he did, he's have said "Natural Philosophy".
Sure, I just don't think they have much of a prouduct, so to be wasting so much effort defending a titular trademark...Doesn't make sense to me.
Well, the sad thing is, they don't own any of the technology. It's not even a technology as such, as much as it is a design philosophy-shift based on percieved public demand and commonly available tools. There is no reason we couldn't have done Ajax 5 years ago, it's just that Javascript is more mature, and more reliably supported in browsers, and the real strengths of XML are better understood now than they were then.
Seems like all they want is the ability to host exclusive conferences on their trademarked topic, which is fine sort of, but I'm irked enough by companies abusing IP law that I'm not even going to think about paying to go to a conference where the topic is as vague as "Web 2.0" and the guys who run it are suing people who try to use "Web 2.0". Screw that. I'll go across the street to the Ajax confrence. At least people agree what that means even if it's overused.
In newspaper work, journalists are commonly forbidden from using nouns that originated as product names...For example, you can't use "Kleenex" or "Frisbee" or "Rollerblades" because of litigous companies that are jealous of their trademarks.
I suppose it's because it's pretty easy to lose a trademark, so you have to be careful, or people could be making "Bob's Frisbee's" and "Joe's Rollerblades" instead of being forced to use the less sexy descriptors.
What is the point of coining a meaningless buzzword to describe a perfectly normal evolution of technology, if you're then going to sue everyone who uses it? It's not like Web 2.0 has any hard assets or IP.
That's like Google suing everyone who uses the verbed form of their name.
Heh. I didn't write the original, so I may be off base.
Could be he was just saying "Sour Grapes" at Microsoft.
Heh yea, my name is really common, and seems to be shared by a lot of really staid people so my few exploits under my real name don't show up against the general backdrop.
If a prospective employer knew enough to look in the right place, it would be a different story. I'm not ashamed to own up to anything I've put online, but I don't necesarrily want to have a person who doesn't know me well forming a snap judgement on a random sampling of material.
You forget the rest of the fable: When the fox realized he couldn't get the grapes, he walked off, saying to himself, "They were probably sour anyway."
This is arguably analagous to Microsoft saying (about a format they can't control, which has been approved by the ISO as their open XML hasn't yet), "We'd support it but it's too slow"
This is so close to true "tv on demand" that the networks have to be crapping their pants.
How do you justify marking up your "must see tv ads" for those crap shows that you slip between the good shows, if it can be proven that people watch the good shows on a completely different day, and don't watch the crap shows at all? If they have to flat rate, or discount their ads, that'll be a huge chunk of their profit.
I got two weeks of in-school suspension when I was 16 for writing a letter to the editor of the local paper under my own name. Public school, etc, etc.
It taught me an important lesson which is: don't write under your own goddamn name!
Seriously. I don't condone what's happening here, but people put stuff out there under their own names that blows my mind. This is the freaking information age, okay? People are going to google you first thing, and they're going to read what you write, they're going to make opinions about it, and if you've not been careful, it's going to be your ass! The stuff is going to be viewed by people you're dating, people you're trying to work for, people who are trying to steal your identity...Don't put your name on it!
It's not like you can't point people to your blog/writing if you want them to read it, and it's not like you can't put things out there to be read under a different name. But putting it out there under your own name, especially if you're a minor, is a bad idea.
Wow, I wish they'd done that at my high school. If, hypothetically, someone punched you in the face, you fell down, and on the way back up gave them a world class uppercut to the nuts, and then spent some quality time kicking them while they were down, your punishment was much more severe even though the other guy started the fight.
Taanj.
I think it's more simple than that. Humanity has a herd instinct which is unusually inclusive; we domesticate other animals, and feel emotional attachment toward them. We make tools, and form emotional attachments to them.
No other animal species does this. I have a pocket knife I've carried for years...I've lost it a time or two, and every time I've gone to crazy lengths trying to find it again. Other animals find something and carry it around until it gets stinky, then they roll in it, and go away. Even animals that have basic tool using behavior don't seem to hold on to a "good" tool, the way we do.