Re:Yeah, but, that's not the same as...
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Abandoned Games
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Yes very good, this was what they were talking about. Unless you have a friend that has it however you can not get a hold of it legally. This is what these people are trying to remedy.
Just because they fill it with useless stuff doesn't change the fact that a gig of information is a lot of information. A terabyte is a huge amount of information and always will be.
All it means it is a lot of crap.
Hardly. Giving them a computer solves none of their needs. Food and medicine and needed there, a basic education would be needed before you give them a little white box, hell maybe you might even want to consider reliable power and communication networks before giving them such a wonderful tool for communication. A computer is pretty high up on a list of wants, the people these are aimed at are still on the beginning of their needs.
When you teach a man to fish you don't hand him a yacht, you give him a small fishing pole. There are far more basic needs that need to be filled, a computer fills none of them.
You want to make a name for yourself by making a show of helping starving people in Africa? How about feeding them.
Most of the work force of any country, including the United States, is more or less uneducated. They know little more then what is required to do their job enough not to get fired. A few years after completing High School, if they did in the first place, the majority would be unable to do so again. Very very few jobs in the world require much of an education.
Computer skills are in no way essential, the fact that you can still find a huge portion of people 20 and over who are afraid of the magic white box is testament to that. The majority of the current work force are not computer literate and the great countries of the world got there before there was universal education and computers.
The idea that you give people a computer and magically their lives will be better is one of the worst jokes currently being pushed on the uneducated public who believe everything they are told. These people have more pressing matters of survival to address before they need to get quick access to porn. A computer is going to let them write a report about what it feels like to die in 12 point Times. Maybe they'll even print it out before they're gone.
No. Stalman has been making money for over a decade writing very little software, but going around on grant money to make these closed software is evil and the devil and your going to hell for using it speeches.
Then they also shouldn't expect companies to simply give money to some guy. If you want people who use your software professionally to donate, there had better be a legal entity to donate to.
Re:What are the entry requirements?
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Hacker Boot Camp
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And again, there are kids doing that right now with information they learned for free by using Google. Should we start making it so that you can only use Google if they have a corporate sponsor?
My entire point is some boot camp isn't going to create a monster that knows or thinks they know things. All they are doing is passing on freely available information and a sheet of paper to those silly enough to pay for it.
Re:What are the entry requirements?
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Hacker Boot Camp
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Anyone can learn these tricks at any time anywhere. They don't need to go to a school to find them. If you think someone going to a boot camp is going to become some 1337 h4x0r, well you might as well also start advocating destroying the internet.
The usual rebuttal, Apache vs. IIS, doesn't apply to anything but Apache and IIS
Well if one of the best analogies is dismissed as not relevant because they aren't the same as OS's, wouldn't the idea that OS X would have the same problems as Windows also be dismissed because OS X is not the same as Windows? There is either a relation between poor security and popularity or their isn't.
Family guy used to be funny, when it made relatively clever references to 80's pop culture. Now they make the obvious jokes with the closest thing to shock 'humour' as they can get without being South Park, and fail miserably at being funny. As such, it doesn't surprise me that a 10yr old thinks its great.
Family Guy got stupider. I mean really stupid and has degraded to the point of being little more then fart jokes, sometimes I think it was written by a 10yr old. The Simpsons hasn't changed since they shifted focus to a better character. That in itself might be something to complain about but at least they stuck to being about the stupid characters instead of the sound the fat guy can make with his ass.
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So when I say there are two types of things in the world I really mean three? 0, 1, 2.
A real fanboy would already have them.
Yes very good, this was what they were talking about. Unless you have a friend that has it however you can not get a hold of it legally. This is what these people are trying to remedy.
Yes it might include bananas, or possibly some other fruit or veggie.
I don't think you used the word patch enough.
When I went to see Phantom Menace, there was a THX sound with a cow going, well, Moo. I've never heard it since and I can't find it anywhere.
Thanks for bringing that memory up. Now I have to find it.
Just because they fill it with useless stuff doesn't change the fact that a gig of information is a lot of information. A terabyte is a huge amount of information and always will be. All it means it is a lot of crap.
It is if your name is Jackson Pollock.
Well it is a small world after all.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
It would look sorta cool
Only sort of?
it is funny how various countries are putting a nationalistic spin on it
Further proof that nationalism is BS. Where he was from or what part of the world he wrote it in is irrelevant and always is. A person wrote this.
How do you know he doesn't work for a hardware store? Meanie head.
Hardly. Giving them a computer solves none of their needs. Food and medicine and needed there, a basic education would be needed before you give them a little white box, hell maybe you might even want to consider reliable power and communication networks before giving them such a wonderful tool for communication. A computer is pretty high up on a list of wants, the people these are aimed at are still on the beginning of their needs.
When you teach a man to fish you don't hand him a yacht, you give him a small fishing pole. There are far more basic needs that need to be filled, a computer fills none of them.
You want to make a name for yourself by making a show of helping starving people in Africa? How about feeding them.
Most of the work force of any country, including the United States, is more or less uneducated. They know little more then what is required to do their job enough not to get fired. A few years after completing High School, if they did in the first place, the majority would be unable to do so again. Very very few jobs in the world require much of an education.
Computer skills are in no way essential, the fact that you can still find a huge portion of people 20 and over who are afraid of the magic white box is testament to that. The majority of the current work force are not computer literate and the great countries of the world got there before there was universal education and computers.
The idea that you give people a computer and magically their lives will be better is one of the worst jokes currently being pushed on the uneducated public who believe everything they are told. These people have more pressing matters of survival to address before they need to get quick access to porn. A computer is going to let them write a report about what it feels like to die in 12 point Times. Maybe they'll even print it out before they're gone.
No. Stalman has been making money for over a decade writing very little software, but going around on grant money to make these closed software is evil and the devil and your going to hell for using it speeches.
Then they also shouldn't expect companies to simply give money to some guy. If you want people who use your software professionally to donate, there had better be a legal entity to donate to.
And again, there are kids doing that right now with information they learned for free by using Google. Should we start making it so that you can only use Google if they have a corporate sponsor?
My entire point is some boot camp isn't going to create a monster that knows or thinks they know things. All they are doing is passing on freely available information and a sheet of paper to those silly enough to pay for it.
Anyone can learn these tricks at any time anywhere. They don't need to go to a school to find them. If you think someone going to a boot camp is going to become some 1337 h4x0r, well you might as well also start advocating destroying the internet.
The usual rebuttal, Apache vs. IIS, doesn't apply to anything but Apache and IIS
Well if one of the best analogies is dismissed as not relevant because they aren't the same as OS's, wouldn't the idea that OS X would have the same problems as Windows also be dismissed because OS X is not the same as Windows? There is either a relation between poor security and popularity or their isn't.
VMWare server is going to be free. Now VirtualPC is going to be free. This is competition. The consumer will decide which they want.
Isn't bashing simply complaining?
You might find you don't fit in around here.
Family guy used to be funny, when it made relatively clever references to 80's pop culture. Now they make the obvious jokes with the closest thing to shock 'humour' as they can get without being South Park, and fail miserably at being funny. As such, it doesn't surprise me that a 10yr old thinks its great.
Family Guy got stupider. I mean really stupid and has degraded to the point of being little more then fart jokes, sometimes I think it was written by a 10yr old. The Simpsons hasn't changed since they shifted focus to a better character. That in itself might be something to complain about but at least they stuck to being about the stupid characters instead of the sound the fat guy can make with his ass.
Could it also rival WoW's server downtime? I never realized how much of the world was in to S&M until I saw WoW's subscription numbers.