Interesting a/.er noted that. This is the same place the majority decry writers as too possessive, needing to shed the copyright they have so everyone can just "use" their thoughts.
Anyone see a connection here? If the originator of creative material does not get imbursed, then they quit and you're left with drek.
Puh-lease. Richelieu might be a reasonable quote, but Ayn Rand? She's no more than an author and one that gave not a shit about anyone but herself. She verged on being an anarchist. Hardly one to honestly espouse the regulations that a government should be run by.
There's not a damn bit of evidence that humans have these fears "hard-wired". If they did, it would be impossible to handle snakes. Also, human babies will gladly pick up a snake, spider, cockroach, or any other animal which should induce instinctual fear.
To be pedantic, we mutated two more, green and blue. Ten percent of the population have an extra green, making four total and ripe for another mutation.
"You can't point at students and interact with them through a flat display."
Sure you can. Just see where the student is in the room and point at that imaginary location. The viewing class will figure it out. Oh, call the student's name.
"You can't change where the camera is pointing, and the students don't really know what the professor can see."
That's even a more of a "sure". Have a joy stick.
It's done all the time now.
Just what is the need for a remote "presence" greater than a large screen with a camera mounted on top? It's not like this will actually "fool" anyone.
"We're locked up tighter than a drum here in the U.S. if we don't support Bush or the war in Iraq or anti-gay legislation, or anti-middle and anti-lower income tax breaks."
"The job of maping C/C++ code to machine code is trivial."
Which machine, chum?
"I've been programming professionally for over 20 years..."
OK, bump chests. I've been at it for 35+. And? Experience doth not beget competence. There are uses for low-level languages and those that require them will use them. Try writing a 300+ module banking application in assembler. By the time you do, it will be outdated. Not because the language will change, but because the banking requirements will. Using assembler to write an application of that magnitude is like trying to write an Encyclopedia article with paper and pencil. Possible, but 'tarded.
"Software sucks today because software engineers don't understand computers, and that's why languages and environments like Java and.NET will make software worse."
More like, 'software sucks today for the same reason it always has -- fossized thinkers can't change to make things easier for those who necessarily follow them.' Ego, no more.
My brother currently has about 2-3 months to live because he didn't and for the last five years has battled cancer. Five bouts of chemo. Not something to wish on anyone. Please get that checkup.
That's not the meaty issue. At heart is the need to have some basic assurance the person has actually learned something useful. No that the public system is any better at it.
The person also has to have the basic skills of interacting peacefully with their co-workers. Not ranting, swearing, playing dangerous pranks, or pranks at all, for that matter. It's not their time -- something posters here seem to have a hard time understanding. Many home-schooling parents treat the teaching as a job; make the kid study certain subjects in certain orders, spend distinct times at tasks, etc. Most don't. It would probably be worse on-line. This gives people a sense of entitlement and the "I can manage my time effectively" attitude when they actually are lousy at it.
Show me an on-line high-school diploma or a university one earned by a less-than-adult and I'll show the holder the door.
Everyone understands that there needs to be some way to control the growth and deposition of the bacteria before it's more than just random strands, right?
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No, he just tried to directly influence a presidential election with known fabrications about Bush.
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"Finally I don't think anybody could argue that fox news gives both sides of the important debates on science such as "theory" of evolution vs creationism... Both sides of those issues are to be treated with the same amount of respect."
Horseshit. Creationism is not science, evolution is. Your putting quote marks around theory only belies your misunderstanding of the word as it applies to science. There is nothing inherent in quacks having ideas that make those ideas worthy of respect.
Please explain -- and be explicit -- just how my daughter getting an abortion impinges on you in the same manner as my fist on your nose would. Hurt feelings don't count any more than your hurt feelings about potty-mouth language in a film you never see.
"Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behavior contrary to basic biological drives (reproduction) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual."
Then you are biologically ignorant. Homosexuality has been documented in over a hundred species. Next.
Wrong. Your post belies your understanding of copyright. That is not at all involved with sales, but with the right of the author/owner of the copyright to distribute their film, writing, (other) as they see fit. You have no right whatsoever to modify someone else's works without their consent. Note my usage of the word right there. That's what copyright is about. Don't like the dirty parts (price, or whatever makes you want to violate the right of owner distribution), don't buy or rent it. Very simple.
Your religious/social preferences don't trump copyright.
Math describes something. That something can be imaginary. Anyone using a flight simulator simulating reverse gravity can "experience" it. So, those extra dimensions ultimately came from someone's mind, not observations of the real world.
And don't lay that old canard about the dimensions only being some attribute of something. String theorists themselves jump far too readily into extrapolating alternate universes for that to be the underlying reason.
"All those nations have a state run school system and pay average salaries (25k - 60k/ year)"
You mean they have the same pay range we do here? You contradict yourself.
Another note. I have a degree in biology. I cannot teach biology. Why? I do not have the prerequisite courses such as (I kid you not) bulliten board organization, replication technologies (xerox), etc. When I talk with teachers my wife works with I find them abysmally ignorant. Even during the last of my degree, I met instructors (only three of which were Phds) who were actually proud they couldn't even open e-mail.
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Every single one that U.S. citizens do, and they are numerous. Don't try to excuse the hacking as a "lack" of political access. That don't fly.
Interesting a /.er noted that. This is the same place the majority decry writers as too possessive, needing to shed the copyright they have so everyone can just "use" their thoughts.
Anyone see a connection here? If the originator of creative material does not get imbursed, then they quit and you're left with drek.
Don't conflate the rules in a war-zone with those in a normal city.
Puh-lease. Richelieu might be a reasonable quote, but Ayn Rand? She's no more than an author and one that gave not a shit about anyone but herself. She verged on being an anarchist. Hardly one to honestly espouse the regulations that a government should be run by.
"It could, however, ..."
Gee. A billion dollar could.
Like Cristo's "art" work, just because you can think it up, doesn't mean it's worth doing.
Must agree with limited crowd, so far. This is nothing new at all. Five somewhat pretty pictures. Seen much more elsewhere.
There's not a damn bit of evidence that humans have these fears "hard-wired". If they did, it would be impossible to handle snakes. Also, human babies will gladly pick up a snake, spider, cockroach, or any other animal which should induce instinctual fear.
To be pedantic, we mutated two more, green and blue. Ten percent of the population have an extra green, making four total and ripe for another mutation.
"You can't point at students and interact with them through a flat display."
Sure you can. Just see where the student is in the room and point at that imaginary location. The viewing class will figure it out. Oh, call the student's name.
"You can't change where the camera is pointing, and the students don't really know what the professor can see."
That's even a more of a "sure". Have a joy stick.
It's done all the time now.
Just what is the need for a remote "presence" greater than a large screen with a camera mounted on top? It's not like this will actually "fool" anyone.
"We're locked up tighter than a drum here in the U.S. if we don't support Bush or the war in Iraq or anti-gay legislation, or anti-middle and anti-lower income tax breaks."
Bullshit. Give real examples.
"How do you tell and convicted hacker, also a programmer, that he can't use a computer?"
As a progrmmer, you knew hacking was illegal. You may not use a computer now. Go flip burgers loser.
"The job of maping C/C++ code to machine code is trivial."
.NET will make software worse."
Which machine, chum?
"I've been programming professionally for over 20 years..."
OK, bump chests. I've been at it for 35+. And? Experience doth not beget competence. There are uses for low-level languages and those that require them will use them. Try writing a 300+ module banking application in assembler. By the time you do, it will be outdated. Not because the language will change, but because the banking requirements will. Using assembler to write an application of that magnitude is like trying to write an Encyclopedia article with paper and pencil. Possible, but 'tarded.
"Software sucks today because software engineers don't understand computers, and that's why languages and environments like Java and
More like, 'software sucks today for the same reason it always has -- fossized thinkers can't change to make things easier for those who necessarily follow them.' Ego, no more.
My brother currently has about 2-3 months to live because he didn't and for the last five years has battled cancer. Five bouts of chemo. Not something to wish on anyone. Please get that checkup.
That's not the meaty issue. At heart is the need to have some basic assurance the person has actually learned something useful. No that the public system is any better at it.
The person also has to have the basic skills of interacting peacefully with their co-workers. Not ranting, swearing, playing dangerous pranks, or pranks at all, for that matter. It's not their time -- something posters here seem to have a hard time understanding. Many home-schooling parents treat the teaching as a job; make the kid study certain subjects in certain orders, spend distinct times at tasks, etc. Most don't. It would probably be worse on-line. This gives people a sense of entitlement and the "I can manage my time effectively" attitude when they actually are lousy at it.
Show me an on-line high-school diploma or a university one earned by a less-than-adult and I'll show the holder the door.
Everyone understands that there needs to be some way to control the growth and deposition of the bacteria before it's more than just random strands, right?
No, he just tried to directly influence a presidential election with known fabrications about Bush.
"Finally I don't think anybody could argue that fox news gives both sides of the important debates on science such as "theory" of evolution vs creationism ... Both sides of those issues are to be treated with the same amount of respect."
Horseshit. Creationism is not science, evolution is. Your putting quote marks around theory only belies your misunderstanding of the word as it applies to science. There is nothing inherent in quacks having ideas that make those ideas worthy of respect.
Please explain -- and be explicit -- just how my daughter getting an abortion impinges on you in the same manner as my fist on your nose would. Hurt feelings don't count any more than your hurt feelings about potty-mouth language in a film you never see.
"Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behavior contrary to basic biological drives (reproduction) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual."
Then you are biologically ignorant. Homosexuality has been documented in over a hundred species. Next.
Yep, they do. He didn't address copyright at all, only distribution.
Wrong. Your post belies your understanding of copyright. That is not at all involved with sales, but with the right of the author/owner of the copyright to distribute their film, writing, (other) as they see fit. You have no right whatsoever to modify someone else's works without their consent. Note my usage of the word right there. That's what copyright is about. Don't like the dirty parts (price, or whatever makes you want to violate the right of owner distribution), don't buy or rent it. Very simple.
Your religious/social preferences don't trump copyright.
Math describes something. That something can be imaginary. Anyone using a flight simulator simulating reverse gravity can "experience" it. So, those extra dimensions ultimately came from someone's mind, not observations of the real world.
And don't lay that old canard about the dimensions only being some attribute of something. String theorists themselves jump far too readily into extrapolating alternate universes for that to be the underlying reason.
"And yes, I probably misspelled something right now."
Yes. Slashdot is not worth the effort required to edit your typing.
"All those nations have a state run school system and pay average salaries (25k - 60k/ year)"
You mean they have the same pay range we do here? You contradict yourself.
Another note. I have a degree in biology. I cannot teach biology. Why? I do not have the prerequisite courses such as (I kid you not) bulliten board organization, replication technologies (xerox), etc. When I talk with teachers my wife works with I find them abysmally ignorant. Even during the last of my degree, I met instructors (only three of which were Phds) who were actually proud they couldn't even open e-mail.