All reading that proved to me is what I already know: American corporations have become bigoted against left-brained, college educated Americans due to the excessive cost of the wages of such people- and since left brained logical thinking can be done anywhere, it will be done anywhere unless draconian protectionist measures are taken to stop it.
My personal recomendation- any company that offshores deserves to have it's C-level executives arrested and exiled from the United States, their mansions and salaries frozen and taken to pay back the huge trade deficit they've caused.
I guess if you give two hoots about "mortal sin" that might be attractive, but for those of us who value individual freedom, I'll take our (US) current system, thanks. It may not be perfect, but it is incredibly dynamic and reallocates resources towards productive areas more effectively than just about anything else out there.
Whenever you reallocate resources, you're playing a zero sum game, which means when you give resources to the more productive you're stealing from the tables of the poor. And when your definition of "productive" seems to be the ability to shuffle paper on Wall Street as opposed to actual production of goods and services, that's a HUGE problem. I most certainly do have qualms about both the concept of "individual freedom" that does not include the basic human rights that 13th century peasants enjoyed. It ain't freedom if you are still a wage slave, and it ain't efficient unless it satisfies the basic needs of the entire population.
And the thing most people forget is that a very short time after Henry decided to do that- his accountnants sarted estimating money coming in with rulers, because there was no other way at the time to count such large amounts.
It's too bad computer companies haven't discovered this secret yet.
7 billion. But distributism doesn't require that you take the numbers that big- distributism might be thought of as "democratic communism", where small communes vote on what they will buy from outside the commune, and what they are able to make themselves. WANTS are surpressed not only by the ideal of mortal sin (distributism is, after all, a Catholic-influenced concept, as it came out of a combination of a rather rose-colored reading of the rights granted to serfs during the 1300s and Dorthy Day's Catholic Worker Movement) but also by an extremely local system of tariffs that makes luxuries too expensive for anybody unless they are able to be created locally.
To the 1st world countries, that will now be 5th world countries because everybody who doesn't have family money to fall back on will be homeless. (the 4th world countries will be the already failing post-communist states).
Where do you work? If you haven't been downsizing and are still outsourcing, I want to send your company a resume. I'm sure several thousand others will as well. You're completely right about the fear- but if your company has succeeded in avoiding downsizing while outsourcing, that fear is mostly baseless in your case, where it isn't baseless elsewhere. For instance, I can show you closed factories right here in my home state of Oregon that were built by HP and Intel- those jobs left for China and India. I know people from Microsoft who were downsized and their jobs moved to the Windows Research Center of Hydrabad. If your company never downsizes, I know plenty of engineers who would like to work there.
The study of economics is based on a simple problem - human wants are infinite, but the resources to satisfy those wants are only finite. So the question becomes - How do we satisfy our wants with the most efficient use of resources?
From the pro article. I've seen this a lot- but there is at least one economic theory, distributism, that claims that human wants are just the mortal sin of greed and human NEEDS are what we should be focused on satisfying- and human needs are indeed finite.
Dragon Naturally Speaking does a relatively good job of taking the WAV files recorded by the IPAQs and changing them to understandible, if not always gramatically correct, text. The problem is more one of memory. I'd suggest either SanDisk 1.0 GB SD cards (a few of them, perhaps even one for each class you're in) OR a Compact Flash Sleeve and a Hitachi 2GB or 4GB drive (about the same price). WAV files are uncompressed and therefore take a HUGE amount of space in comparison to just about any other kind of file you can create with the PocketPC.
I agree with the first 5 comments- you haven't given us enough requirments. But given the one reuqirement you've given us, I'd suggest just about anything would do from a pad of paper to a Linux based self-programmed database application in MySQL- and everything in between.
How about accepting a better list of requirements from someone who has both been playing with PDAs since the Newton and already graduated from college? This is what I wish I had in 1995- and this is what we have available today from a variety of manufacturers:
A fold-up full sized keyboard for data entry that can fit in your pocket- preferably wireless (either IR or Bluetooth) so that it can be set up quickly.
A good note taking application of some sort- it should accept both typed text and pen drawings.
A good Todo List that links to the calendar in some fashion- to give you early warning of upcoming deadlines and allow you to prioritize assignments.
A reasonable-quality voice recorder- if possible one that you can record up to 90 minutes on and still run the results through a voice recognition program to get text notes out. No matter how fast you are at typing or handwriting you will always miss something in your notes- automatic note taking would be a big plus.
It should have a very large internal memory as well as interface to your desktop machine back at the dorm for backups- ideally every night before you sleep everything you need should both be on the PDA and your desktop machine- and best of all this should be automated.
Anybody else have any other requirments for this young person? Anybody know of a ready technology that fits this list? I've got my own favorite right now (PocketPC HP Ipaq 2210 with Bluetooth Keyboard and Hitachi 2GB CF-form-factor Hard Drive) but I'm pretty sure there's a cheaper linux solution out there as well that also fits the requirements- and there are certainly better PDAs when it comes to the hardware buttons.
Uh- back in 1995 my parents bought a computerized home stereo that had this exact interface. The main control knob, software selectible between volume, track number, disc number, AM Frequency, and FM Frequency, just spun freely- and even clicked audibly and tactically. So no- there's prior art on that too.
The OP's life would be easier- but other people's lives wouldn't be. Specifically those who use a copy of Personal Webserver, IE, and Word to edit Word Documents in place. I'm not sure I've ever heard of anybody outside of Microsoft doing that- but I know it can be done.
Whew- I hoped I didn't have to post this 40 comments down in the thread. Yes, Office 2000 has the above tool- and Office 2002 or 2003 has it on the Save As menu. The option you want is "Web Page (filtered)|*.html". I saw an interview once with somebody on the Word development team, and he claimed that the original Save As HTML was built for passing Word Documents over the web- and never meant to be read by human beings as a web page at all. Web Page (filtered) cuts out all the extra shyte that Save As HTML used to put in for managing version controled updates and changing the font every bloody character- and builds a real web page.
Assuming it's all digital- and Voice over IP is- then yes, it is relatively trivial. Especially if you get to pick the sound- what you want is a siren. That way you get a big blast of sound running through all the frequencies you're interested in, and you can use the (relatively) quiet to loud transition as a good zero indicator. From there, it's just a byte comparison.
Actually, I think the other guy was right, and I needed a third comma. The point is not breathing, but understandibility. Which should really be the point of grammar to begin with- not a hard and fast set of rules, but is what you wrote understandible.
Was that based on a short story/Novella from Astounding (not Analog) called Polonaise?
Polonaise (I forgot who wrote it) in an anothology I had lying around from the author that I lent to a young Polish immigrant I know, was apparently based on this large body of Polish alternative history stuff that has never been translated. Talking to my young friend's father, he was VERY familiar with the history and the genre- and BTW, the other bit in Polonaise about how rare use of the Society of Assassins was quite correct- apparently democratically elected Kings with terms of 5 years worked extremely well. Too bad the Ottoman Empire put an end to it.
OTOH- I have to wonder if George Lucas is familiar with this bit of Polish History and Alternative History- the constitutional monarchy of Naboo in Episodes 1-3 seems to have some relation to this.
I'm not arguing in favor of ignorance. But you can't require each woman to study medicine either, therefore in many (most) cases, the doctor will be able to argue from a stronger position.
And in cases where the death of the mother is a certainty, as well he might. Not a few emergency room doctors have had mere seconds to choose to perform an abortion when a young teenager female comes in, already unconscious, due to an unknown ecotopic pregnancy. But under those circumstances abortion will never be a choice- it will always be a neccessity, and pro-life people should acknowledge that.
Not at all of course. I'm just saying that humans are not only rational, and abortion is an incredible emotional topic. Therefore it just doesn't cut it to only take rationality into account.
If it did, it would be obvious that making it illegal will do NOTHING to reduce abortion- and giving a woman her Article 26 rights to motherhood would remove most of the social stigma against pregnancy.
Scenario: woman gets pregnant and after detailed and painful consideration,she decides for abortion. Reasons don't matter here, all that matters that for her, it seems the only option.
If it's a decision- then what society OWES both her and her unborn child is more options.
But of course she still hates to do it (contrary to what some pro-life say, the decision is nearly never easily made, and people do struggle with it).
As well they should- and this should be a sign to both pro-choice and the pro-life community that they should be able to find common ground in giving women more options. Abortion is the option of last resort for most- and for even the few where it isn't, better options would be welcomed.
Now, she's pretty informed, she's also already seen scans (women in general have, even if not their own). And since she hates to have to do it, but needs to do it and is on the edge, she consciously decides not to look at the scan of her own.
True enough.
This is IMHO entirely reasonable
Yes it is. It's also a complete and utter violation of both her human rights (under Article 26 of the UDHR) and the unborn child's human rights (under Article 2 of the UDHR).
If I gave the impression that providing the women with more information was ALL that I wanted- I appologise. Encouraging the woman to make the right decision is only half the battle- once she has made the decision in favor of life, she needs and deserves to be supported under basic human rights. If we want to say that we provide basic human rights in this country, and criticize other countries in the UN for not, then our abortion rate is a major national embarassment. And abortion need not be made illegal to fix it.
Remove the capability of the command line for home users, but leave a buggy and insecure shell for servers where hackers can have lots of fun messing up enterprise level websites!
2 such items- one you can build yourself from any spark-gap cigarate lighter (such as the script electro), and the other is based on the standard tones for a disconnected phone line.
Some of the Polish alternate history stuff is quite well done- there was a whole genre based on the idea that their constitutional monarchy was able to beat the Ottoman Empire (instead of losing, which is the real history) thus creating a strong Poland for the 19th century, and NOT sucumbing to repeated attacks by the Germans and Russians in the 20th. What the Polish would have done as a superpower- including beating EVERYBODY ELSE into space.
Some years ago, there was in the city of York, a society of magicians. Seems, at least to me, that this writer and his editor need to read the proper use of commas.
Less hard than *expensive*- your cheapest PBX system runs to about $300 and it's not the type of thing you're going to put together out of spare parts. Plus there's the danger of that whole "dial 9 to get out thing"- training kids not to try to transfer calls to extensions begining with 9 (because they don't exist), teaching the whole family that the real number for emergency is 9911, etc.
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All reading that proved to me is what I already know: American corporations have become bigoted against left-brained, college educated Americans due to the excessive cost of the wages of such people- and since left brained logical thinking can be done anywhere, it will be done anywhere unless draconian protectionist measures are taken to stop it.
My personal recomendation- any company that offshores deserves to have it's C-level executives arrested and exiled from the United States, their mansions and salaries frozen and taken to pay back the huge trade deficit they've caused.
I guess if you give two hoots about "mortal sin" that might be attractive, but for those of us who value individual freedom, I'll take our (US) current system, thanks. It may not be perfect, but it is incredibly dynamic and reallocates resources towards productive areas more effectively than just about anything else out there.
Whenever you reallocate resources, you're playing a zero sum game, which means when you give resources to the more productive you're stealing from the tables of the poor. And when your definition of "productive" seems to be the ability to shuffle paper on Wall Street as opposed to actual production of goods and services, that's a HUGE problem. I most certainly do have qualms about both the concept of "individual freedom" that does not include the basic human rights that 13th century peasants enjoyed. It ain't freedom if you are still a wage slave, and it ain't efficient unless it satisfies the basic needs of the entire population.
And the thing most people forget is that a very short time after Henry decided to do that- his accountnants sarted estimating money coming in with rulers, because there was no other way at the time to count such large amounts.
It's too bad computer companies haven't discovered this secret yet.
7 billion. But distributism doesn't require that you take the numbers that big- distributism might be thought of as "democratic communism", where small communes vote on what they will buy from outside the commune, and what they are able to make themselves. WANTS are surpressed not only by the ideal of mortal sin (distributism is, after all, a Catholic-influenced concept, as it came out of a combination of a rather rose-colored reading of the rights granted to serfs during the 1300s and Dorthy Day's Catholic Worker Movement) but also by an extremely local system of tariffs that makes luxuries too expensive for anybody unless they are able to be created locally.
To the 1st world countries, that will now be 5th world countries because everybody who doesn't have family money to fall back on will be homeless. (the 4th world countries will be the already failing post-communist states).
Where do you work? If you haven't been downsizing and are still outsourcing, I want to send your company a resume. I'm sure several thousand others will as well. You're completely right about the fear- but if your company has succeeded in avoiding downsizing while outsourcing, that fear is mostly baseless in your case, where it isn't baseless elsewhere. For instance, I can show you closed factories right here in my home state of Oregon that were built by HP and Intel- those jobs left for China and India. I know people from Microsoft who were downsized and their jobs moved to the Windows Research Center of Hydrabad. If your company never downsizes, I know plenty of engineers who would like to work there.
The study of economics is based on a simple problem - human wants are infinite, but the resources to satisfy those wants are only finite. So the question becomes - How do we satisfy our wants with the most efficient use of resources?
From the pro article. I've seen this a lot- but there is at least one economic theory, distributism, that claims that human wants are just the mortal sin of greed and human NEEDS are what we should be focused on satisfying- and human needs are indeed finite.
Dragon Naturally Speaking does a relatively good job of taking the WAV files recorded by the IPAQs and changing them to understandible, if not always gramatically correct, text. The problem is more one of memory. I'd suggest either SanDisk 1.0 GB SD cards (a few of them, perhaps even one for each class you're in) OR a Compact Flash Sleeve and a Hitachi 2GB or 4GB drive (about the same price). WAV files are uncompressed and therefore take a HUGE amount of space in comparison to just about any other kind of file you can create with the PocketPC.
How about accepting a better list of requirements from someone who has both been playing with PDAs since the Newton and already graduated from college? This is what I wish I had in 1995- and this is what we have available today from a variety of manufacturers:
A fold-up full sized keyboard for data entry that can fit in your pocket- preferably wireless (either IR or Bluetooth) so that it can be set up quickly.
A good note taking application of some sort- it should accept both typed text and pen drawings.
A good Todo List that links to the calendar in some fashion- to give you early warning of upcoming deadlines and allow you to prioritize assignments.
A reasonable-quality voice recorder- if possible one that you can record up to 90 minutes on and still run the results through a voice recognition program to get text notes out. No matter how fast you are at typing or handwriting you will always miss something in your notes- automatic note taking would be a big plus.
It should have a very large internal memory as well as interface to your desktop machine back at the dorm for backups- ideally every night before you sleep everything you need should both be on the PDA and your desktop machine- and best of all this should be automated.
Anybody else have any other requirments for this young person? Anybody know of a ready technology that fits this list? I've got my own favorite right now (PocketPC HP Ipaq 2210 with Bluetooth Keyboard and Hitachi 2GB CF-form-factor Hard Drive) but I'm pretty sure there's a cheaper linux solution out there as well that also fits the requirements- and there are certainly better PDAs when it comes to the hardware buttons.
Uh- back in 1995 my parents bought a computerized home stereo that had this exact interface. The main control knob, software selectible between volume, track number, disc number, AM Frequency, and FM Frequency, just spun freely- and even clicked audibly and tactically. So no- there's prior art on that too.
I have no idea- I don't work on Macs. But somehow I'm not surprised- Microsoft specifically sabatoges the Macintosh version of office quite often.
The OP's life would be easier- but other people's lives wouldn't be. Specifically those who use a copy of Personal Webserver, IE, and Word to edit Word Documents in place. I'm not sure I've ever heard of anybody outside of Microsoft doing that- but I know it can be done.
Whew- I hoped I didn't have to post this 40 comments down in the thread. Yes, Office 2000 has the above tool- and Office 2002 or 2003 has it on the Save As menu. The option you want is "Web Page (filtered)|*.html". I saw an interview once with somebody on the Word development team, and he claimed that the original Save As HTML was built for passing Word Documents over the web- and never meant to be read by human beings as a web page at all. Web Page (filtered) cuts out all the extra shyte that Save As HTML used to put in for managing version controled updates and changing the font every bloody character- and builds a real web page.
Assuming it's all digital- and Voice over IP is- then yes, it is relatively trivial. Especially if you get to pick the sound- what you want is a siren. That way you get a big blast of sound running through all the frequencies you're interested in, and you can use the (relatively) quiet to loud transition as a good zero indicator. From there, it's just a byte comparison.
To me, a good PDA with a good office suite in ROM does just as well- with the added plus that the kid can't mess up the OS.
Actually, I think the other guy was right, and I needed a third comma. The point is not breathing, but understandibility. Which should really be the point of grammar to begin with- not a hard and fast set of rules, but is what you wrote understandible.
Was that based on a short story/Novella from Astounding (not Analog) called Polonaise?
Polonaise (I forgot who wrote it) in an anothology I had lying around from the author that I lent to a young Polish immigrant I know, was apparently based on this large body of Polish alternative history stuff that has never been translated. Talking to my young friend's father, he was VERY familiar with the history and the genre- and BTW, the other bit in Polonaise about how rare use of the Society of Assassins was quite correct- apparently democratically elected Kings with terms of 5 years worked extremely well. Too bad the Ottoman Empire put an end to it.
OTOH- I have to wonder if George Lucas is familiar with this bit of Polish History and Alternative History- the constitutional monarchy of Naboo in Episodes 1-3 seems to have some relation to this.
The correct use for commas in modern English is in seperating list elements
Are you sure you're talking about English as opposed to LISP?
I'm not arguing in favor of ignorance. But you can't require each woman to study medicine either, therefore in many (most) cases, the doctor will be able to argue from a stronger position.
And in cases where the death of the mother is a certainty, as well he might. Not a few emergency room doctors have had mere seconds to choose to perform an abortion when a young teenager female comes in, already unconscious, due to an unknown ecotopic pregnancy. But under those circumstances abortion will never be a choice- it will always be a neccessity, and pro-life people should acknowledge that.
Not at all of course. I'm just saying that humans are not only rational, and abortion is an incredible emotional topic. Therefore it just doesn't cut it to only take rationality into account.
If it did, it would be obvious that making it illegal will do NOTHING to reduce abortion- and giving a woman her Article 26 rights to motherhood would remove most of the social stigma against pregnancy.
Scenario: woman gets pregnant and after detailed and painful consideration,she decides for abortion. Reasons don't matter here, all that matters that for her, it seems the only option.
If it's a decision- then what society OWES both her and her unborn child is more options.
But of course she still hates to do it (contrary to what some pro-life say, the decision is nearly never easily made, and people do struggle with it).
As well they should- and this should be a sign to both pro-choice and the pro-life community that they should be able to find common ground in giving women more options. Abortion is the option of last resort for most- and for even the few where it isn't, better options would be welcomed.
Now, she's pretty informed, she's also already seen scans (women in general have, even if not their own). And since she hates to have to do it, but needs to do it and is on the edge, she consciously decides not to look at the scan of her own.
True enough.
This is IMHO entirely reasonable
Yes it is. It's also a complete and utter violation of both her human rights (under Article 26 of the UDHR) and the unborn child's human rights (under Article 2 of the UDHR).
If I gave the impression that providing the women with more information was ALL that I wanted- I appologise. Encouraging the woman to make the right decision is only half the battle- once she has made the decision in favor of life, she needs and deserves to be supported under basic human rights. If we want to say that we provide basic human rights in this country, and criticize other countries in the UN for not, then our abortion rate is a major national embarassment. And abortion need not be made illegal to fix it.
Remove the capability of the command line for home users, but leave a buggy and insecure shell for servers where hackers can have lots of fun messing up enterprise level websites!
2 such items- one you can build yourself from any spark-gap cigarate lighter (such as the script electro), and the other is based on the standard tones for a disconnected phone line.
Some of the Polish alternate history stuff is quite well done- there was a whole genre based on the idea that their constitutional monarchy was able to beat the Ottoman Empire (instead of losing, which is the real history) thus creating a strong Poland for the 19th century, and NOT sucumbing to repeated attacks by the Germans and Russians in the 20th. What the Polish would have done as a superpower- including beating EVERYBODY ELSE into space.
Some years ago, there was in the city of York, a society of magicians. Seems, at least to me, that this writer and his editor need to read the proper use of commas.
Too soon- just wait for next year when the Hugos will be dominated by the only people left to have any hope at all: Islamic Jihadists!
Less hard than *expensive*- your cheapest PBX system runs to about $300 and it's not the type of thing you're going to put together out of spare parts. Plus there's the danger of that whole "dial 9 to get out thing"- training kids not to try to transfer calls to extensions begining with 9 (because they don't exist), teaching the whole family that the real number for emergency is 9911, etc.