Right on. However I must admit, public television actually provides thought provoking analysis with people who are inelligent like David Brooks and others. Not morons like O'Reilly.
He is really only doing a reasonable job. While has pushed through many needed reforms, his balancing of the budget was a short term solution that will seriously hamper California in the future.
The Arnold solution essentially pushed the debt off to be dealt with at a later date- after interest will take its toll on it and create an even larger debt.
So Arnold wins points for an effective short term solution, but losses points for a screwing California in the future unless taxes are raised.
The real solution would have been to repeal prop 187. Prop 187 has severely hampered the California legislature's ability to support the extensive programs that California has in place that are for the most part very good.
Don't blame style over substance on the candidate's handlers. The candidate's advisors and aides are only trying to make him appealing to the public.
It is the public that looks for style over substance. If the public was interested in listening to a 3 hour long debate on the merits of a privitized social security system then that's what the debates would be about.
Letting 3rd party candidates into a debate won't suddenly revitalize our democracy and create a multiparty system, rather than our biparty system. While it may give voters a few extra names to remember when they go to the polls, it will make very little difference.
Ultimately what grabs votes is money. Sure there are lots of people who pay attention to debates, but there are just as many who don't. Most people end up going by what they see on TV, and what they see on TV has a direct corrolation to the amount of money a party has. A small party like the Green party or Libertarian party just does not have enough money to run an effective campaign. Remember that candidates are now marketed to the populice. The more money you have, the more "product" exposure you get.
The likelyhood of two parties that have such diametrically opposed ideologies is next to zero. Just because they are both interested in pushing 3rd parties out of the way- And manage to work together to do it does not mean they will become a single entity unless there is a drastic shift in ideologies in this country, and the way things are headed right now only points to more disagreement.
Unfortunately, there is the widespread idea that 3rd party complaints and ideas are not heard. This is only true to an extent. 3rd parties come and go so often because they are almost always a splinter off of a particular party and their ideas are generally adopted into a major party platform. This usually convinces the members of the 3rd party to rejoin with the major party since their ideas were finally acknowledged. There are only a few parties for which this has not occurred (Communist/Socialist parties, the Libertarians only occassionally agree with conservatives).
While this is a late reply, it's always to get the say in on the discussion for the archives...
While there have been lower entry rates for CS programs, (I'd know, I'm in one right now that has the lower entry rates) however the number of grads has not declined enough to warrant an increase in pay given the fact that there are numerous job seekers.
Wrong. If there are less jobs then that means there are more people vying for those jobs, thus there is a high supply and low demand. This would cause salaries to go down.
This is very good news as it means there is more demand for CS and IT professionals now that companies realize that 50% of all outsourcing ventures lose money. About the only ones that end up profiting are call center outsourcing ventures. All others tend to be cheaper at first, then hemorage money once traveling, translating, and other expenses are factored in.
What many people who are posting in outrage here because of an overbearing government (including the article poster) is that there was a court order obtained to obtain the access codes so the FBI could utilize the onboard navigation system to their advantage:
The case arose from a 2001 FBI surveillance operation in Las Vegas, in which agents obtained a court order compelling a telematics company to secretly activate the stolen vehicle recovery feature in a customer's car.
If law enforcement obtains a court order that means they have sufficient evidence against the suspect. This is no different from tapping phones in that law enforcement has some evidence against a person but is looking for the final piece of the puzzle. Using the onboard navigation system goes one step further, however, allowing police to actually track someone down who is running from the law.
The only problem with using these systems is the problem brought up in this court case, that using the data gleaned from the system is detrimental to its operation in case of an emergency.
Ultimately this case is not one that/.ers should be having a party about. The only way in which it protects privacy is that it ensures a company can provide the services it promised a consumer. While some may disagree with me in that I support the use of these devices if a court order is obtained, this does not do anything to stop the FBI from using these devices (assuming they can find a way to work around the purely technical, not legal, problems presented in this case)
If you had read the first sentence of his post you would know the reason for him having never posted before:
I was made aware of this posting by an e-mail that was sent to
Belkin's tech support e-mail box. Since I am a product manager for
Belkin's LAN products and was very involved with the development of
the Parental Control feature, I feel that I can shed some light on
this subject.
But are there as many unsolved boating accidents other places? There are a large number of accidents that have gone unexplained and that is why mystery surrounds that area.
However, it is entirely likely that there are the same number of unsolved boat sinkings in other areas as well, but the Bermuda triangle just happened to have a rash of them at some point.
Not everyone lives in urban areas. Out where I live it takes a 15 minute drive just to buy groceries.. 30 to see a movie and even more if you want to do other things. A car out here is more than just a metal box, it is a necessity, because you aren't going to bike 10-20 miles every day to get food;)
However staying off alcohol and other drugs is commendable, great job
Lets face it, most of the people use/.ers know are fairly computer saavy. Dell has a reputation among many of the people I know who know nothing about computers as having good tech support. To a nerd, good tech support really just doesn't exist (Lets face it, we think we know more no matter what and will not be satisfied that we had to stoop to the level of tech support)
Well actually Ronco's products are generally successes because of his marketing skill. I'm not saying just because you are on TV you will get sales. I'm saying that effective ads will get purchases, and if the product is solid more purchases will come as a result
Way to provide evidence. Anyone can make a brash claim like that.
If you look at Dell's past marketing endevours they have been quite successful at getting their products all over TV. They have been especially successful at creating memorable TV commercials, one of the more important aspects of marketing. (Dude, you got a Dell!)
"Given an operator's call sign, one can A HREF="http://www.arrl.org/fcc/fcclook.php3">search the FCC databases which will return the licensees street address, among other data."
Jeez, these/. editors are worse than us! Sure we/.ers rarely RTFA, but the editors don't even read the damn article summary!
I took a two year cisco course at my high school and after it took the CCNA and passed with an 860. (squeaked by!) So far one friend has failed with a score similar to yours, and another has passed with a score similar to mine.
I find the CCNA certification test itself really to be kind of annoying. The way to get certified really is to have good intuitive ability on the routers (mainly for the router sims on the exam) and to memorize lots and lots of material.
The cisco course itself, however was greatly helpful to me. I learned enourmous amounts of information about networking and the internet in general.
The scoring is actually a little different than you think. While yes, it is out of 1000 points, you start at 300. So really it is only a 700 point range which means 849 would be more acurately displayed as 549 on a 0 to 700 scale. A 549 out of 700 is about 78% (This is also why most practice tests you take will consider 80% passing).
To study for the CCNA I used this book and just studied for a couple weeks before the test. The CCNA comes down to memorization and if you really want a CCNA give it one more try- Just do a bit more studying and you'll pass.
Unfortunately I really can't answer the ask/. question because I haven't used my CCNA yet. As a senior in high school I don't have much use for it right now. I can say this, though: Don't take the course if you aren't ready for a hell of a lot of studying the week before the test, or you're in for a dissapointment like the parent poster here.
By the way, I never learned about the zero subnet either... until I read the book I linked above.
Lets remember that usually people are friends with people who have similar interests as they do. Many of my friends are fairly good with computers and of course are always helping their parents. However I do have some friends who really don't know much about their computers and whose parents help them quite often.
Not everybody knows what they are doing (or cares to)
As this guy said the goals of the open source community are " freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications" and if they aren't goals of the average user that's a tough break. If they can't use one of the desktop environments like KDE or Gnome now why would they be able to use a "standardized one?"
Maybe the best solution to the whole "average user" problem is to make a dumbed down KDE/Gnome that are "easier" to use (although I don't think they are really all that hard to use as it is, and things like lindows make linux even more useable)
Thank you for proving to me that you are in fact the biggest dumbass in the world. Please, take your ridiculous political ideas and jump off a cliff so nobody else becomes as stupid as you.
It isn't, though. vasqzr has an excellent point. These people are paying for the rights to a patent similar to the rights to the land. If they want to utilize the patent (build on the land) they may. If they want to let it sit there and block someone else from using that land, they can, because it is their right. They legally paid for it and have ownership rights. It is nothing like buying land on mars because there is nobody to pay for it, and there is no way of claiming ownership. (At the current time, obviously;) )
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Right on. However I must admit, public television actually provides thought provoking analysis with people who are inelligent like David Brooks and others. Not morons like O'Reilly.
He is really only doing a reasonable job. While has pushed through many needed reforms, his balancing of the budget was a short term solution that will seriously hamper California in the future.
The Arnold solution essentially pushed the debt off to be dealt with at a later date- after interest will take its toll on it and create an even larger debt.
So Arnold wins points for an effective short term solution, but losses points for a screwing California in the future unless taxes are raised.
The real solution would have been to repeal prop 187. Prop 187 has severely hampered the California legislature's ability to support the extensive programs that California has in place that are for the most part very good.
I believe George Soros tossed a few more than 2 cents into the ring... http://www.actforvictory.org/
Don't blame style over substance on the candidate's handlers. The candidate's advisors and aides are only trying to make him appealing to the public.
It is the public that looks for style over substance. If the public was interested in listening to a 3 hour long debate on the merits of a privitized social security system then that's what the debates would be about.
Unfortunately you are way off.
Letting 3rd party candidates into a debate won't suddenly revitalize our democracy and create a multiparty system, rather than our biparty system. While it may give voters a few extra names to remember when they go to the polls, it will make very little difference.
Ultimately what grabs votes is money. Sure there are lots of people who pay attention to debates, but there are just as many who don't. Most people end up going by what they see on TV, and what they see on TV has a direct corrolation to the amount of money a party has. A small party like the Green party or Libertarian party just does not have enough money to run an effective campaign. Remember that candidates are now marketed to the populice. The more money you have, the more "product" exposure you get.
The likelyhood of two parties that have such diametrically opposed ideologies is next to zero. Just because they are both interested in pushing 3rd parties out of the way- And manage to work together to do it does not mean they will become a single entity unless there is a drastic shift in ideologies in this country, and the way things are headed right now only points to more disagreement.
Unfortunately, there is the widespread idea that 3rd party complaints and ideas are not heard. This is only true to an extent. 3rd parties come and go so often because they are almost always a splinter off of a particular party and their ideas are generally adopted into a major party platform. This usually convinces the members of the 3rd party to rejoin with the major party since their ideas were finally acknowledged. There are only a few parties for which this has not occurred (Communist/Socialist parties, the Libertarians only occassionally agree with conservatives).
While this is a late reply, it's always to get the say in on the discussion for the archives...
While there have been lower entry rates for CS programs, (I'd know, I'm in one right now that has the lower entry rates) however the number of grads has not declined enough to warrant an increase in pay given the fact that there are numerous job seekers.
Wrong. If there are less jobs then that means there are more people vying for those jobs, thus there is a high supply and low demand. This would cause salaries to go down. This is very good news as it means there is more demand for CS and IT professionals now that companies realize that 50% of all outsourcing ventures lose money. About the only ones that end up profiting are call center outsourcing ventures. All others tend to be cheaper at first, then hemorage money once traveling, translating, and other expenses are factored in.
If law enforcement obtains a court order that means they have sufficient evidence against the suspect. This is no different from tapping phones in that law enforcement has some evidence against a person but is looking for the final piece of the puzzle. Using the onboard navigation system goes one step further, however, allowing police to actually track someone down who is running from the law.
The only problem with using these systems is the problem brought up in this court case, that using the data gleaned from the system is detrimental to its operation in case of an emergency.
Ultimately this case is not one that
... and in other news India gained 540,000 jobs in 2002, but experts say the numbers are slowing...
If you had read the first sentence of his post you would know the reason for him having never posted before:
I was made aware of this posting by an e-mail that was sent to Belkin's tech support e-mail box. Since I am a product manager for Belkin's LAN products and was very involved with the development of the Parental Control feature, I feel that I can shed some light on this subject.
But are there as many unsolved boating accidents other places? There are a large number of accidents that have gone unexplained and that is why mystery surrounds that area.
However, it is entirely likely that there are the same number of unsolved boat sinkings in other areas as well, but the Bermuda triangle just happened to have a rash of them at some point.
dropping their internal temperatures to 26F (6 degrees below freezing!)
Thanks, for a minute there I wasn't sure if the temperature water freezes at was still 32 degrees F...
Not everyone lives in urban areas. Out where I live it takes a 15 minute drive just to buy groceries.. 30 to see a movie and even more if you want to do other things. A car out here is more than just a metal box, it is a necessity, because you aren't going to bike 10-20 miles every day to get food ;)
However staying off alcohol and other drugs is commendable, great job
Lets face it, most of the people use /.ers know are fairly computer saavy. Dell has a reputation among many of the people I know who know nothing about computers as having good tech support. To a nerd, good tech support really just doesn't exist (Lets face it, we think we know more no matter what and will not be satisfied that we had to stoop to the level of tech support)
Well actually Ronco's products are generally successes because of his marketing skill. I'm not saying just because you are on TV you will get sales. I'm saying that effective ads will get purchases, and if the product is solid more purchases will come as a result
Way to provide evidence. Anyone can make a brash claim like that.
If you look at Dell's past marketing endevours they have been quite successful at getting their products all over TV. They have been especially successful at creating memorable TV commercials, one of the more important aspects of marketing. (Dude, you got a Dell!)
You could have sent your email address along with the article!
"Given an operator's call sign, one can A HREF="http://www.arrl.org/fcc/fcclook.php3">search the FCC databases which will return the licensees street address, among other data."
/. editors are worse than us! Sure we /.ers rarely RTFA, but the editors don't even read the damn article summary!
Jeez, these
I took a two year cisco course at my high school and after it took the CCNA and passed with an 860. (squeaked by!) So far one friend has failed with a score similar to yours, and another has passed with a score similar to mine.
/. question because I haven't used my CCNA yet. As a senior in high school I don't have much use for it right now. I can say this, though: Don't take the course if you aren't ready for a hell of a lot of studying the week before the test, or you're in for a dissapointment like the parent poster here.
I find the CCNA certification test itself really to be kind of annoying. The way to get certified really is to have good intuitive ability on the routers (mainly for the router sims on the exam) and to memorize lots and lots of material.
The cisco course itself, however was greatly helpful to me. I learned enourmous amounts of information about networking and the internet in general.
The scoring is actually a little different than you think. While yes, it is out of 1000 points, you start at 300. So really it is only a 700 point range which means 849 would be more acurately displayed as 549 on a 0 to 700 scale. A 549 out of 700 is about 78% (This is also why most practice tests you take will consider 80% passing).
To study for the CCNA I used this book and just studied for a couple weeks before the test. The CCNA comes down to memorization and if you really want a CCNA give it one more try- Just do a bit more studying and you'll pass.
Unfortunately I really can't answer the ask
By the way, I never learned about the zero subnet either... until I read the book I linked above.
Their site hasn't been /.ed yet! These new processors must really work!
Lets remember that usually people are friends with people who have similar interests as they do. Many of my friends are fairly good with computers and of course are always helping their parents. However I do have some friends who really don't know much about their computers and whose parents help them quite often.
Not everybody knows what they are doing (or cares to)
You can't blame video games for sheer stupidity.
Exactly.
As this guy said the goals of the open source community are " freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications" and if they aren't goals of the average user that's a tough break. If they can't use one of the desktop environments like KDE or Gnome now why would they be able to use a "standardized one?"
Maybe the best solution to the whole "average user" problem is to make a dumbed down KDE/Gnome that are "easier" to use (although I don't think they are really all that hard to use as it is, and things like lindows make linux even more useable)
Thank you for proving to me that you are in fact the biggest dumbass in the world. Please, take your ridiculous political ideas and jump off a cliff so nobody else becomes as stupid as you.
It isn't, though. vasqzr has an excellent point. These people are paying for the rights to a patent similar to the rights to the land. If they want to utilize the patent (build on the land) they may. If they want to let it sit there and block someone else from using that land, they can, because it is their right. They legally paid for it and have ownership rights. It is nothing like buying land on mars because there is nobody to pay for it, and there is no way of claiming ownership. (At the current time, obviously ;) )