FOIA = Freedom of Information Act. You can take the Fed Govt. to court to access information, usually court documents. This is the first time I've seen it used for software and I think its an excellent idea. Since no company owns Vista (the software wasn't done by a contractor) you can petition the government to release the source. That's why its open source.
As for $10k, you don't really believe the VA is going to give away hardware to run this software and someone to install the software, do you?
Is it the computer science I learned, ie how to turn an undergraduate into a graduate student? Where everything is theoretical because that's how they like their graduate students?
Or are we talking about a DBA? Or someone to make sure your Exchange Server is up and running?
Computer Science at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley etc isn't about learning how to be a DBA, its about acquiring the tools necessary to do research at a higher level. Who needs an algorithms class when you can just use the sort functions available in VC++? Or who needs to read a research paper about ISAM or BSTs when its already implemented and ready to use in SQL Server?
I'm reminded of "Profession" by Asimov. Is the purpose of higher education simply to show people tools and how they work so they can have a skill or to teach people why the tools are they way they are and (hopefully) help them to make the tools better? To me CS has always been the latter.
Note, this is not a put down to DBAs, sysadmins, etc. They have their own creativity and processes that I admire and respect.
and she gets patients constantly doing this. I didn't even know until I was watching the news with her. The reporter said "Always check the internet to make sure you're getting the best care possible" and my mom just got pissed. She started talking about all these patients coming in with self-diagnosis and demanding that she do something about it, which usually means "Give me medicine you damn quack!"
And so she has to go into pacification mode, trying to reason with the patient that he/she doesn't have lymphoma ( chills, swelling of the lymph nodes, fever, night sweats, unexplained weight loss, lack of energy, itching) but the normal, average cold virus.
Dell is not the cause, its a symptom of our times. People want $500 laptops and $200 computers and Dell has the power to give it to them. So, it does. Its not Dell's fault that its built itself into a powerhouse of low cost computing, its simply serving a public that wants everything at the lowest price possible regardless of the overall cost, in this case, innovation.
An argument about hybrids:
26850 Accord EX V6 (no sat nav) 21/30 mpg
30140 Accord Hybrid (no sat nav) 29/37 mpg
Price difference: $3300
Lets say you do 50/50 city/highway driving and and you get exactly what the EPA says you should get: 25.5 for the EX and 33 for the Hybrid. You drive 12,000 miles per year.
So its 471 gallons per year (EXV6) and 364 gallons per year (Hybrid), or a difference of 107 gallons.
At $2.10 (unleaded regular) its $224.70 more per year.
You'd have to drive your hybrid for over 10 years to recoup the offset cost. This doesn't even take into account that few hybrids achieve their EPA ratings and the cost of the batteries after the warranty expires.
If we double the price of gas to $4, then its $428 more per year. Then its less than eight years. But if prices go to $4, I think I'll have other things to worry about.
So, where does a hybrid make sense? How about Amsterdam where a gallon of gas is $6.48. Or how about Japan where its $4.24? But definitely not Venezuela where a gallon of gas cost $.14
This is how I imagined the conversation went between the game industry and SAG
SAG: Well, we get points and residuals in movies.
Game Industry: We don't make movies.
SAG: Yes, we understand that. But, points/residuals is how SAG has always operated.
GI: Yeah, but we don't make movies.
SAG: Yes, I understand that, but that's how we've always worked.
GI: And the game industry has always worked without residuals.
SAG: But, but, but...fine, we strike.
GI: Fine. AFTRA has agreed to our most recent contract, so we'll go ahead and use TV and Radio actors.
SAG: Fine. Jerks. No more Wil Wheaton for you!
while programmers == set builders. I'm assuming that's how SAG sees it.
But, there's a crucial difference between a voice actor and a movie star. While a movie star can carry a movie, I don't know of any video game that a single voice actor carried. Yeah, Michael Ironside is great as Sam Fisher, but I didn't know he was the voice until I read it. No one buys Splinter Cell because of Michael Ironside: he only adds to the realism.
Its for this reason that I think voice actors shouldn't get points for games. They don't carry games like they can carry movies. Until you can sell a million copies of a video game because Tom Cruise does a voiceover, voice actors shouldn't get points.
As for Ironside stating "There needs to be a standard for the people who can't protect themselves, the rank-and-file performer" what a bunch of crap. Somehow I don't think anyone but A-list actors get points from movies.
You really need to read this article. Because of the mess known as Mach/BSD (Microkernel shoved in a monolithic kernel) you have to have thread wrappers to handle and create threads. This means multithreaded applications like MySQL get absolutely destroyed by Linux when it comes to performance.
I understand what you're saying, that Mac OS X has an elegant UI, but the article wasn't about OS X as a desktop, it was OS X as a server. And OS X Server got rocked.
That means if you want to play as the World Champion New England Patriots, you will only be doing it in an NFL game. Its always been the case if you want to play an NFL team then you're going to have to play an NFL game, whether its ESPN or Madden. Anyone who releases a game that is associated with the NFL has to get a license from the NFL. What (I think) you meant to say was "you will only be doing it in Madden."
Villasante used his keynote speech earlier in the day to express concerns about the European software industry.
"What I think is that Europe doesn't have a software industry today -- the only one we have today is in America. In the future we may have China or India. We should decide if we will have a European software industry in the future," he said.
Villasante argued that open source is vital to the development of the European software industry...
So, something that Villasante considers vital to the greater good of his community (the E.U.) is threatened by outsiders (American Multinational Corporations). So, what does anyone do in this situation? Go on the offense and claim that the outsiders are evil, whether they truly are evil or not. If they are not evil then spin something to make it appear that they are evil.
Surprising? Not really. I wish the world could be viewed in such broad black and white strokes as good/evil, but it can't. But, it seems to me that Villasante is merely trying to bring to the forefront the death of the European software industry. Whether this is true or not I have no idea, but if he believes that Open Source is vital to rebuilding the European software industry, then of course he will try to break ties to that evil of all evils, American Multinationals.
What makes you think students could do a better job? Sure, the Peoplesoft deployment went poorly, but imagine what would happen if you had to write the code then deploy it. You seem to be under the impressive that what Peoplesoft does is throw a DB together with some interface and voila! you've got the backend infrastructure that will support a large university. Its an end to end process that goes beyond simply throwing a DB at the university. Migrating data, implementing the layout of the DB, etc etc. This is why Oracle and Peoplesoft make money because doing these things efficiently is hard.
Further, Peoplesoft got hired and received hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars just in case something happens. A university doesn't want an open-ended hole to throw money at. Instead they sign a contract and when something goes wrong they turn to the company and say "Fix it!" In your reality, something goes wrong, the University has to hire more people to come in and fix the problem. Even worse since the project is a one off system, no one outside the university can really help. And problems are never ending in a project of this magnitude.
While we're at it, why hire outside contractors to build a new library? Why don't we just get the architecture professors together with the MEs and let them sort it out. I'm sure they could do a better job than the last building that was over budget and behind schedule.
"Socially, the vacuum was created by greed.
...
A friend of mine told me he thinks that if Microsoft released just 10% of the roughly $2 BILLION in CASH (does not include other assets) to help curb diseases and help starvation, many people could be helped."
I was uneasy reading this OP/Ed piece. But once I got to the "social" problem, I stopped reading. So, what charitable organization has the one of the largest endowments in the world? That would be the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that has an endowment of roughly $29 billion. And what do they focus on? Global health problems like HIV/AIDS in Africa and education.
So only Microsoft should be held to this lofty standard of donating 10% of its cash to help the needy? Why not every company? Why shouldn't Ford donate 10% of its cash hoard (~$10 billion). What about Apple's $6 billion cash hoard? Or what about ordinary people? Why don't we require everyone to donate 10% of their savings account? Because Micro$oft is evil and should give back? As soon as I read this I knew this op/ed piece was a waste.
You think so? From 9th through 12th I had two years of Western European history (9th and 12th), 1 year American history (11th) and one year "Global Studies." Although Global Studies was a joke, two years of European history says alot.
When I meet people who tell me Americans are ignorant and don't know what's going on in the world I tend to agree but then I ask them whose the president of South Korea. Or the Prime Minister of Japan. Generally they have no clue. I only ask to prove a point. How do we define ignorance of the world affairs? Simply because you know the capital of Latvia and I don't doesn't mean I'm ignorant.
I know whose the president of S. Korea and the Prime Minister of Japan because I'm of asian descent. I also know whose the president of France, Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Great Britain simply because I pay attention. However, I don't even know what to call the head of state of Latvia. Do I consider myself ignorant? Just because I'm uninterested in the internal politics of France doesn't make me ignorant. I can't know everything there is to know about everything.
Simply because you deem something to be worthy of knowing doesn't mean it holds true for everyone else.
Nice blog and all, but I don't see what the fuss is all about. Microsoft commissions someone to create a song for them. They decide that they don't want the song but offer to pay them for their time anyways. If you want to talk about creative differences, then you could legitimately say that MS decided that it wanted to take their keynote in a different direction. This only attracted attention because it was MS.
As for asking him to remove "boobs" if he wanted to buy it back, well I can understand that. You could see it on CNN: "Microsoft commissions "Boobie" song!" Instead it lands on the front page of/. and all those luddites can come out and say "Look at MS! What a bunch of bastards!"
Those that hate MS still hate MS and point to this as yet another reason to hate. And lets be honest: they hate MS anyways, so no big deal.
Mod the parent poster up. There are no "contracts" outside of the director and the producers/movie studios. The director may have a contract with the movie studio to not edit his film, but once its out in the open, does this contract mean no one can edit the film? This falls under fair use. However, distributing the film once you've recut is a legal grey area: its like sampling in hip hop. But, this is a moot point because the copies of the film in question are purchased legitimately, then either "censored" or "edited" depending on how you want to look at it.
When I was running WinXP on a 1.3Ghz Celeron M laptop, even with all the gui stuff turned off, it still ran slow. I blame the Intel Extreme 2 shared video. Anyways, I installed litestep because I had read its amazingly efficient. It effectively replaces your shell. It behaves much like a light weight X-windowing system.
For more about replacement shells, check Shellfront
South Korea uses CDMA. And in Japan DoCoMo, KDDI and J-Phone all use some variation of CDMA (wCDMA, CDMA EVDO) for 3G services. China is also a mixed market like the US, so there's CDMA there as well.
You won't see them in seven states though including California. Diesel is great for getting more miles for your gallon. All you have to do is compare a Volkswagen Jetta GL with the 2.0L I-4 versus the 1.9L Turbo diesel. The diesel kicks its ass in terms of MPG.
BUT, diesels are bigger polluters in terms of soot, NOx and carbon dioxide. And we're talking 10x levels higher than good gas engine. That's why diesels can't meet emissions standards in California and a bunch of states in New England and are *not* sold there.
So, although your post covers a few bases like using a renewable resource (like Bio-diesel) and increasing MPG (hybrids) it doesn't cover actual pollution. Simply getting higher MPG doesn't always equal better for the environment.
Here's the thing though. The OP said nothing about wanting to work in IT. His specifications are a little vague. I agree with you that a university setting is not the place to learn how to administrate a bunch of Unix boxes. It is a great place to learn the fundamentals of CS though and "good" algorithmic design.
Remember, getting your certs won't guarantee you a job either.
When I say "neutral" I mean neither hostile nor happiness towards that particular country. This has more to do with ignorance on my own part than anything else. How can I truly appreciate something that I don't know anything about? So they are an ally. So is Australia. Does that mean I have to love Australia? No. I feel neutral about Australia as well.
I think you just assumed that I was anti-French from the get go, and I'm sorry to say that's just you reading into it more than there is. It really feels like you're simply trying to pick a fight here. There's no animosity on my part towards the French embracing their heritage. You simply *assumed* that "nationalistic zeal" has bad connotations. It doesn't have to, I don't mean it in a negative way. Its a perfect description of things like excising Anglicanized words from their vocabulary. Or trying to get muslim women not to wear burqas. Did I call them xenophobic? No. Did I call them anti-English? No. I realize you're trying to defend the French, but attacking my post is the wrong place to begin. I simply pointed out the incongruity of their situation, which wasn't an attack, just a comment on the situation.
Come on! We're Americans! Do you think we *care* what everyone else thinks?
All joking aside, regardless of my feelings towards the French, which are pretty close to neutral, this does seem contrary to their nationlistic zeal to keep France French. I (like other posters) assumed that the government would come up with its own solution. It seems absurd that France would team up with that oh so American company Microsoft to thwart that other oh so American company Google.
P.S. The US was attacked by terrorists because of numerous things, but name calling is not one of them.
P.P.S. The rest of the world bashes the US. Don't you think we get tired of that?
This reminds me of a 60 Minutes report I saw probably ten years ago. A *ahem* gentleman had setup a whole bunch of long distance companies, with names like "I don't care", "Anyone" or "It doesn't matter." So, back in the day when you dialed the operator to make a long distance collect call from a pay phone, they'd ask you for your LD carrier preference. You say "It doesn't matter" and *boom*! $10 a minute. Argghh!!
It's a basic lesson you learn in analyzing history, to take any work in the context of the culture that produced it.
No, that's what revisionist historians do. Well, *true* revisionist historians do. And this has been only popular for the last 60 years or so.
I wouldn't call Chris Rock a dumbass, more of a voice of the popular man. As for me, in high school I had 1 year of American History, 2 year of Euro and then "global studies." And, in global studies we covered India, South Africa and Buddhism. So, by my completely unscientific poll, ie me, we covered a lot more Euro/American history than anything else. And, in American History, we only went through WWII, because that's what was important on the A.P. test.
That's a terrific quote you got there. And its followed by
In the long run, the librarian-in-chief cautioned against the domination of America for generations to come and its potential to skew thought without reflecting the diversity of civilizations.
You're absolutely correct with your quote, but it seems that he's taking a contrarian position because he doesn't want American culture to "skew" historians for generations. And it is a knee-jerk reaction because he assumed because Google was an American company, it only served the good of America and because of all this it wouldn't scan French books. That's a pretty knee-jerk reaction to me.
Besides, it isn't as if Europe hasn't already skewed history. To paraphrase Chris Rock, you learn Europe up the ass, but nothing about anything else.
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-Martin Luther King.
-It was a woman.
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FOIA = Freedom of Information Act. You can take the Fed Govt. to court to access information, usually court documents. This is the first time I've seen it used for software and I think its an excellent idea. Since no company owns Vista (the software wasn't done by a contractor) you can petition the government to release the source. That's why its open source.
As for $10k, you don't really believe the VA is going to give away hardware to run this software and someone to install the software, do you?
Is it the computer science I learned, ie how to turn an undergraduate into a graduate student? Where everything is theoretical because that's how they like their graduate students?
Or are we talking about a DBA? Or someone to make sure your Exchange Server is up and running?
Computer Science at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley etc isn't about learning how to be a DBA, its about acquiring the tools necessary to do research at a higher level. Who needs an algorithms class when you can just use the sort functions available in VC++? Or who needs to read a research paper about ISAM or BSTs when its already implemented and ready to use in SQL Server?
I'm reminded of "Profession" by Asimov. Is the purpose of higher education simply to show people tools and how they work so they can have a skill or to teach people why the tools are they way they are and (hopefully) help them to make the tools better? To me CS has always been the latter.
Note, this is not a put down to DBAs, sysadmins, etc. They have their own creativity and processes that I admire and respect.
and she gets patients constantly doing this. I didn't even know until I was watching the news with her. The reporter said "Always check the internet to make sure you're getting the best care possible" and my mom just got pissed. She started talking about all these patients coming in with self-diagnosis and demanding that she do something about it, which usually means "Give me medicine you damn quack!"
And so she has to go into pacification mode, trying to reason with the patient that he/she doesn't have lymphoma ( chills, swelling of the lymph nodes, fever, night sweats, unexplained weight loss, lack of energy, itching) but the normal, average cold virus.
Dell is not the cause, its a symptom of our times. People want $500 laptops and $200 computers and Dell has the power to give it to them. So, it does. Its not Dell's fault that its built itself into a powerhouse of low cost computing, its simply serving a public that wants everything at the lowest price possible regardless of the overall cost, in this case, innovation.
An argument about hybrids: 26850 Accord EX V6 (no sat nav) 21/30 mpg 30140 Accord Hybrid (no sat nav) 29/37 mpg Price difference: $3300 Lets say you do 50/50 city/highway driving and and you get exactly what the EPA says you should get: 25.5 for the EX and 33 for the Hybrid. You drive 12,000 miles per year. So its 471 gallons per year (EXV6) and 364 gallons per year (Hybrid), or a difference of 107 gallons. At $2.10 (unleaded regular) its $224.70 more per year. You'd have to drive your hybrid for over 10 years to recoup the offset cost. This doesn't even take into account that few hybrids achieve their EPA ratings and the cost of the batteries after the warranty expires. If we double the price of gas to $4, then its $428 more per year. Then its less than eight years. But if prices go to $4, I think I'll have other things to worry about. So, where does a hybrid make sense? How about Amsterdam where a gallon of gas is $6.48. Or how about Japan where its $4.24? But definitely not Venezuela where a gallon of gas cost $.14
This is how I imagined the conversation went between the game industry and SAG
SAG: Well, we get points and residuals in movies.
Game Industry: We don't make movies.
SAG: Yes, we understand that. But, points/residuals is how SAG has always operated.
GI: Yeah, but we don't make movies.
SAG: Yes, I understand that, but that's how we've always worked.
GI: And the game industry has always worked without residuals.
SAG: But, but, but...fine, we strike.
GI: Fine. AFTRA has agreed to our most recent contract, so we'll go ahead and use TV and Radio actors.
SAG: Fine. Jerks. No more Wil Wheaton for you!
while programmers == set builders. I'm assuming that's how SAG sees it.
But, there's a crucial difference between a voice actor and a movie star. While a movie star can carry a movie, I don't know of any video game that a single voice actor carried. Yeah, Michael Ironside is great as Sam Fisher, but I didn't know he was the voice until I read it. No one buys Splinter Cell because of Michael Ironside: he only adds to the realism.
Its for this reason that I think voice actors shouldn't get points for games. They don't carry games like they can carry movies. Until you can sell a million copies of a video game because Tom Cruise does a voiceover, voice actors shouldn't get points.
As for Ironside stating "There needs to be a standard for the people who can't protect themselves, the rank-and-file performer" what a bunch of crap. Somehow I don't think anyone but A-list actors get points from movies.
You really need to read this article. Because of the mess known as Mach/BSD (Microkernel shoved in a monolithic kernel) you have to have thread wrappers to handle and create threads. This means multithreaded applications like MySQL get absolutely destroyed by Linux when it comes to performance.
I understand what you're saying, that Mac OS X has an elegant UI, but the article wasn't about OS X as a desktop, it was OS X as a server. And OS X Server got rocked.
That means if you want to play as the World Champion New England Patriots, you will only be doing it in an NFL game.
Its always been the case if you want to play an NFL team then you're going to have to play an NFL game, whether its ESPN or Madden. Anyone who releases a game that is associated with the NFL has to get a license from the NFL. What (I think) you meant to say was "you will only be doing it in Madden."
Villasante used his keynote speech earlier in the day to express concerns about the European software industry.
"What I think is that Europe doesn't have a software industry today -- the only one we have today is in America. In the future we may have China or India. We should decide if we will have a European software industry in the future," he said.
Villasante argued that open source is vital to the development of the European software industry...
So, something that Villasante considers vital to the greater good of his community (the E.U.) is threatened by outsiders (American Multinational Corporations). So, what does anyone do in this situation? Go on the offense and claim that the outsiders are evil, whether they truly are evil or not. If they are not evil then spin something to make it appear that they are evil.
Surprising? Not really. I wish the world could be viewed in such broad black and white strokes as good/evil, but it can't. But, it seems to me that Villasante is merely trying to bring to the forefront the death of the European software industry. Whether this is true or not I have no idea, but if he believes that Open Source is vital to rebuilding the European software industry, then of course he will try to break ties to that evil of all evils, American Multinationals.
What makes you think students could do a better job? Sure, the Peoplesoft deployment went poorly, but imagine what would happen if you had to write the code then deploy it. You seem to be under the impressive that what Peoplesoft does is throw a DB together with some interface and voila! you've got the backend infrastructure that will support a large university. Its an end to end process that goes beyond simply throwing a DB at the university. Migrating data, implementing the layout of the DB, etc etc. This is why Oracle and Peoplesoft make money because doing these things efficiently is hard.
Further, Peoplesoft got hired and received hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars just in case something happens. A university doesn't want an open-ended hole to throw money at. Instead they sign a contract and when something goes wrong they turn to the company and say "Fix it!" In your reality, something goes wrong, the University has to hire more people to come in and fix the problem. Even worse since the project is a one off system, no one outside the university can really help. And problems are never ending in a project of this magnitude.
While we're at it, why hire outside contractors to build a new library? Why don't we just get the architecture professors together with the MEs and let them sort it out. I'm sure they could do a better job than the last building that was over budget and behind schedule.
"Socially, the vacuum was created by greed.
...
A friend of mine told me he thinks that if Microsoft released just 10% of the roughly $2 BILLION in CASH (does not include other assets) to help curb diseases and help starvation, many people could be helped."
I was uneasy reading this OP/Ed piece. But once I got to the "social" problem, I stopped reading. So, what charitable organization has the one of the largest endowments in the world? That would be the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that has an endowment of roughly $29 billion. And what do they focus on? Global health problems like HIV/AIDS in Africa and education.
So only Microsoft should be held to this lofty standard of donating 10% of its cash to help the needy? Why not every company? Why shouldn't Ford donate 10% of its cash hoard (~$10 billion). What about Apple's $6 billion cash hoard? Or what about ordinary people? Why don't we require everyone to donate 10% of their savings account? Because Micro$oft is evil and should give back? As soon as I read this I knew this op/ed piece was a waste.
You think so? From 9th through 12th I had two years of Western European history (9th and 12th), 1 year American history (11th) and one year "Global Studies." Although Global Studies was a joke, two years of European history says alot.
When I meet people who tell me Americans are ignorant and don't know what's going on in the world I tend to agree but then I ask them whose the president of South Korea. Or the Prime Minister of Japan. Generally they have no clue. I only ask to prove a point. How do we define ignorance of the world affairs? Simply because you know the capital of Latvia and I don't doesn't mean I'm ignorant.
I know whose the president of S. Korea and the Prime Minister of Japan because I'm of asian descent. I also know whose the president of France, Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Great Britain simply because I pay attention. However, I don't even know what to call the head of state of Latvia. Do I consider myself ignorant? Just because I'm uninterested in the internal politics of France doesn't make me ignorant. I can't know everything there is to know about everything.
Simply because you deem something to be worthy of knowing doesn't mean it holds true for everyone else.
Nice blog and all, but I don't see what the fuss is all about. Microsoft commissions someone to create a song for them. They decide that they don't want the song but offer to pay them for their time anyways. If you want to talk about creative differences, then you could legitimately say that MS decided that it wanted to take their keynote in a different direction. This only attracted attention because it was MS.
/. and all those luddites can come out and say "Look at MS! What a bunch of bastards!"
Those that hate MS still hate MS and point to this as yet another reason to hate. And lets be honest: they hate MS anyways, so no big deal.
As for asking him to remove "boobs" if he wanted to buy it back, well I can understand that. You could see it on CNN: "Microsoft commissions "Boobie" song!" Instead it lands on the front page of
Mod the parent poster up. There are no "contracts" outside of the director and the producers/movie studios. The director may have a contract with the movie studio to not edit his film, but once its out in the open, does this contract mean no one can edit the film? This falls under fair use. However, distributing the film once you've recut is a legal grey area: its like sampling in hip hop. But, this is a moot point because the copies of the film in question are purchased legitimately, then either "censored" or "edited" depending on how you want to look at it.
And they usually preface their [unfounded] opinions with "IANAL but I think..."
When I was running WinXP on a 1.3Ghz Celeron M laptop, even with all the gui stuff turned off, it still ran slow. I blame the Intel Extreme 2 shared video. Anyways, I installed litestep because I had read its amazingly efficient. It effectively replaces your shell. It behaves much like a light weight X-windowing system.
For more about replacement shells, check Shellfront
South Korea uses CDMA. And in Japan DoCoMo, KDDI and J-Phone all use some variation of CDMA (wCDMA, CDMA EVDO) for 3G services. China is also a mixed market like the US, so there's CDMA there as well.
You won't see them in seven states though including California. Diesel is great for getting more miles for your gallon. All you have to do is compare a Volkswagen Jetta GL with the 2.0L I-4 versus the 1.9L Turbo diesel. The diesel kicks its ass in terms of MPG.
BUT, diesels are bigger polluters in terms of soot, NOx and carbon dioxide. And we're talking 10x levels higher than good gas engine. That's why diesels can't meet emissions standards in California and a bunch of states in New England and are *not* sold there.
So, although your post covers a few bases like using a renewable resource (like Bio-diesel) and increasing MPG (hybrids) it doesn't cover actual pollution. Simply getting higher MPG doesn't always equal better for the environment.
Here's the thing though. The OP said nothing about wanting to work in IT. His specifications are a little vague. I agree with you that a university setting is not the place to learn how to administrate a bunch of Unix boxes. It is a great place to learn the fundamentals of CS though and "good" algorithmic design. Remember, getting your certs won't guarantee you a job either.
When I say "neutral" I mean neither hostile nor happiness towards that particular country. This has more to do with ignorance on my own part than anything else. How can I truly appreciate something that I don't know anything about? So they are an ally. So is Australia. Does that mean I have to love Australia? No. I feel neutral about Australia as well.
I think you just assumed that I was anti-French from the get go, and I'm sorry to say that's just you reading into it more than there is. It really feels like you're simply trying to pick a fight here. There's no animosity on my part towards the French embracing their heritage. You simply *assumed* that "nationalistic zeal" has bad connotations. It doesn't have to, I don't mean it in a negative way. Its a perfect description of things like excising Anglicanized words from their vocabulary. Or trying to get muslim women not to wear burqas. Did I call them xenophobic? No. Did I call them anti-English? No. I realize you're trying to defend the French, but attacking my post is the wrong place to begin. I simply pointed out the incongruity of their situation, which wasn't an attack, just a comment on the situation.
Come on! We're Americans! Do you think we *care* what everyone else thinks?
All joking aside, regardless of my feelings towards the French, which are pretty close to neutral, this does seem contrary to their nationlistic zeal to keep France French. I (like other posters) assumed that the government would come up with its own solution. It seems absurd that France would team up with that oh so American company Microsoft to thwart that other oh so American company Google.
P.S. The US was attacked by terrorists because of numerous things, but name calling is not one of them.
P.P.S. The rest of the world bashes the US. Don't you think we get tired of that?
This reminds me of a 60 Minutes report I saw probably ten years ago. A *ahem* gentleman had setup a whole bunch of long distance companies, with names like "I don't care", "Anyone" or "It doesn't matter." So, back in the day when you dialed the operator to make a long distance collect call from a pay phone, they'd ask you for your LD carrier preference. You say "It doesn't matter" and *boom*! $10 a minute. Argghh!!
It's a basic lesson you learn in analyzing history, to take any work in the context of the culture that produced it.
No, that's what revisionist historians do. Well, *true* revisionist historians do. And this has been only popular for the last 60 years or so.
I wouldn't call Chris Rock a dumbass, more of a voice of the popular man. As for me, in high school I had 1 year of American History, 2 year of Euro and then "global studies." And, in global studies we covered India, South Africa and Buddhism. So, by my completely unscientific poll, ie me, we covered a lot more Euro/American history than anything else. And, in American History, we only went through WWII, because that's what was important on the A.P. test.
That's a terrific quote you got there. And its followed by
In the long run, the librarian-in-chief cautioned against the domination of America for generations to come and its potential to skew thought without reflecting the diversity of civilizations.
You're absolutely correct with your quote, but it seems that he's taking a contrarian position because he doesn't want American culture to "skew" historians for generations. And it is a knee-jerk reaction because he assumed because Google was an American company, it only served the good of America and because of all this it wouldn't scan French books. That's a pretty knee-jerk reaction to me.
Besides, it isn't as if Europe hasn't already skewed history. To paraphrase Chris Rock, you learn Europe up the ass, but nothing about anything else.
-Who was arrested for not giving up their seat on the bus?
-Martin Luther King.
-It was a woman.
-Martina Luther King!