At times killing "bad" people was condoned by THE Church, thus was "good". At those times, there was very little option for your average Joe. However, many people objected to that and many other screwups by THE Church. Good Christias, do not kill people and I don't see them buying this game for their children, at least no more than they'd buy Quake 90000 for their kids.
Most computer systems companies do actually spec a "maximum boot time" as a design requirement to engineering. Usually for server grade systems it's ~45s to the windows splash screen.
What goes on during boot is quite often extensive diagnostics of components that commonly fail, or that if they are corrupt, would cause your system to potentially lose data. Hence memory testing, some quick tests of network and pci components etc. While your machine may be doing the same thing every time it boots, it may not be in the same condition every time. You may add in a new card, or your cat may have pissed on it, or a small amphibian may have hopped into the fan duct (yes, both of these happen and have resulted in warranty repairs). Sometimes the effects of these actions are not felt until it is too late, unless diagnostics are run.
Once that's done, the OS has to start figuring out which parts of itself it needs to load. That's not always fast either, because they can't guarantee a consistent hardware set to work from. If you want it to "boot" fast, hibernate, but remember thanks to windoze it's not always a bad thing to reset and blow its brains out on a daily basis with a nice reset.
Quite the opposite. It is our high tech labor force that has priced itself out of low-level, non-innovative markets like manufacturing. A study of history would easily prove that - this nation has continuously become more high-tech while constantly shedding physical-labor intensive work elsewhere. An attempt to maintain a dying labor model in manufacturing spawned the original Luddites. Your suggestion is no different - smashing looms has never been the answer; creating the next better product is. That's where science comes in.
Troll. You clearly have no idea what jobs are being sent overseas, what innovation really is, who does it, or what impacts your suggestion will drive as the next generation makes decisions in the school system.
To be fair, you may just be an elitist snob, except for this gem "What, low-paying manufacturing jobs that we send overseas? Good, I don't want them. Wouldn't you rather get rid of crappy jobs, while using research to generate new good ones?". That identifies you as a troll, as any educated person working in R&D, should know that manufacturing requires a significant science and engineering staff to maintain, improve and ultimate, innovate. I know more scientists and engineers working on manufacturing improvements than in inventing new products, precisely because one of those is very much tied to corporate investments, and the other is scary and risky.
Offshoring is a short-sighted "make money now" solution to a larger problem with how our economy works. Yes, it would be great if the "next big thing" comes along, but you can't manage that and if you put people out of jobs until it does, you're going to find people using weapons to put you out of business. That's also from history.
Any nerdrection which lasts longer than 4 hours, a nerdipism, is a sign of a serious mental disorder. Consult your nearest computer megastore helpdesk counter immediately.
I'd rather listen to the stupid nokia ring in the middle of a movie than have my employer turn a cell phone jammer on in the building interfering with my cell modem and my ability to check my email and run my personal life. YEah, tehy're paying me to be there, but only for 8 of the 10-14 hours i am there...
People work best together when they are working personal agenda with significant tangible stakes and where cooperation produces personal benefit. It gets destructive when either the number of winners are excessively small, or when there is nothing at all worth competing over.
There are no shortage of good schools in the US. If you don't get in to MIT, there are so many other schools that offer equal education and opportunities that there's almost no reason to bother with it. Not so in some other countries. That may be part of the problem w/US education.
Another problem is that professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey positions are naturally limited and offer incredible rewards if achieved. Outside of athletics the only career choices that have quite the same expectation values are acting and "business", both are not heavily backed by strong academics. Doctors, lawyers and engineers all can do pretty well, but aren't that hard to get in to, and aren't very likely to make millions. Science remains a profession similar to professional art: only the really motivated can afford to pursue it.
This particular set of constraints doesn't exist elsewhere. There are big stakes for good engineers in India right now. China is busily trying to increase its technical industry to free itself from the West. There are big stakes for brainiacs, and less for entertainers or "american-style" businessmen (snake oil production optimizers).
Ok, but we have school teachers who can't teach math, period. My 5th grade teacher left me stupefied about "PEMDAS", but she did manage to teach us yoga and meditation (I'm serious). There is some evidence that our priorities are really screwed up. The competitiveness in academics in other countries is sometimes insane, but a LITTLE competition and respect might not be so bad either. There's no question our athletes are pushed to succeed, but in academics...I haven't seen anything other than parental pressure, mostly directed at getting in to one of the top tier colleges. Once there...eh. Hell, even in politics science & math takes a back burner to "common sense" be it religion or man on the street think.
Absolutely 0. If my employers found out about all this extra time I'd just spend it all sitting in front of a screen anyway. At least this way I have a reason to come home every day.
You guys are joking, and I was modded up +5 Funny, but I'm dead serious! I really HAVE received letters for not edging my lawn for several days. No kidding, I have 3 letters about edging my lawn (3 separate occasions, and I DO edge my lawn...twice a month) I have 2 letters about my grass being too tall (I mow it when I edge), 1 letter about a tree our builder installed that was actually approved by these people. Finally, I got a letter about the garden my wife made, that the neighbors actually like, that didn't have a "landscape plan submitted and approved". My next door neighbor had to replace two $300 trees he installed in his yard (because the builder chopped the nice native trees down) because the HOA didn't like the type (a low water, heat tolerant type which thrives in texas, but is different than what others have).
Staying indoors and avoiding my neighbors has never made more sense. I don't even have the luxury of taking revenge on our HOA pres. because he works at my company and is more senior. The more you know the people who live near you, the more treating video-games as violence simulators actually starts to make sense.
Given the HOA nazi's in my neighborhood, I'm not even sure I WANT to know my neighbors. They seem to support a pretty asinine institution, they must not be good people.
The problem is more of a legal issue. By having a judge interpret "what they meant" in a broad way, similar rulings can be applied on less terrible cases involving say: downloading songs rather than trying to rape underage girls. It's a little scary if judges can assume the latitude to rewrite laws (similar to presidents rewriting laws via signing statements).
In this particular case, it seems innocuous. The law was wrong to say 'email', they should have said "electronic communications", but I think some politicians (read: longtime winners of popularity contests, versus intelligent well-read people) were trying to be too smart for themselves in a "liberal-arts-majors-are-dumb-as-stumps" sort of way. It seems pretty lame that we had to make a new law to even cover "electronic communications" for this (or any other) crime. Raping young kids is raping young kids, how you lure them ought to be beside the fact. Whether you're in the proverbial unmarked white van or assuming the role of Mandy6969, you are wrong.
It would be nice if the internet could be relied upon to deliver low latency services, it is about all that is left in the network that we could care about (beyond more bwidth). I'm not going to weigh in on the proper way that could be done, I see many perfectly reasonable (but anti-monopoly) ways of doing it. The point being, the larger the commitee involved, the less good the result.
The UN isn't much better. If the UN has control no country will feel represented, the US (and corporate forces therein) can still bully, and bureacracy will prevent progress.
Really the internet stopped being useful when it became popular.
people trying to hire the top 90% or 95% of employees had better be willing to provide salaries and benefits in the top 90% to 95% as well.
So many companies forget that part! Particularly if they can convince the employees that their company is prestigious and worth taking a pay cut over. Don't buy it, somewhere around 4am one night you're going to realize that your prestigious company was just like the dump you got out of, only instead ofm anagers ASKING you to work weekends, they EXPECT it.
Exactly. RMS is the anti-thesis to everything that readers of Forbe's hold dear. They are going to treat him unfairly and ostracize him as the anti-christ.
RMS is the kind of guy that refuses to "be cool" and go with the flow. While I wouldn't have him over for dinner, we all need him. Greed should not be running hte world, and that's precisely what Forbe's is all about: "Justifiable Greed" (sometimes called Fiduciary Responsibility).
I don't think it's a good argument that sports are a good way to encourage lifelong physical fitness. At some point in life you will need to start getting daily excersize on your own even when you're not able to compete or can't get a team together. That's usually where most people, myself included, start to have problems. If it's just you, and the team isn't depending on you...it's easy to slip. Independence has long been missing from education, but I think it's the source of at least two problem articles on/. now.
Anyhow not being allowed to run in recess is not new. In NYC public schools (at least the ones I went to) we were not allowed to run. Of course we did it, but it usually ended in the teacher chasing you down and making you sit in a corner for a few minutes to "settle down". It wasn't until junior high or high school when there was organized PE that we got any real excersize (still no football or tag). Those programs were good, they taught exersizes that we could/should do on our own to maintain our bodies. That's what is truly needed.
The point of the article isn't lost on me...lawsuits for "kids being kids" are ridiculous. I just don't think this is a compelling counter-argument.
This is a great left coast piece deflecting blame from those responsible, to WoW. If you are losing your job, spouse, children, physique to WoW, it is your fault. End of story. WoW, as the title implies, does not do that. WoW, as MMOGs go, has around the least time commitment you're going to find. It could be improved, particularly on 40 mans, but it is possible (albeit difficult sometimes) to raid twice a week, for 3-4 hours a piece, and leave it at that. You won't get 30+ epics, and in Naxx in 2 months like some of the more ambitious guilds...but if your guild is well run, not plagued by favoritism and/or unfair rules, and full of adults with well rounded lives, you WILL get there. You can make sure your kids are doing homework, get your 30 minutes of treadmill time, and spend quality time with the dog all while working 9-10 hour work days (which at some companies may actually not be enough, but the problem is again, not with WoW). It takes self discipline, one of the hardest attributes to level, and one which we all struggle with.
There is a point where if you cannot control yourself around something, you must stop it entirely, but again, that is your responsibility. I don't think that's necessary for the vast majority of people.
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Nothing "C#" can or should legally be considered to be a "great tool", or "low price". I think we should start with a lawsuit and work from there.
At times killing "bad" people was condoned by THE Church, thus was "good". At those times, there was very little option for your average Joe. However, many people objected to that and many other screwups by THE Church. Good Christias, do not kill people and I don't see them buying this game for their children, at least no more than they'd buy Quake 90000 for their kids.
I agree, but customers do not. There's still a lot of MS crap out there.
Most computer systems companies do actually spec a "maximum boot time" as a design requirement to engineering. Usually for server grade systems it's ~45s to the windows splash screen.
What goes on during boot is quite often extensive diagnostics of components that commonly fail, or that if they are corrupt, would cause your system to potentially lose data. Hence memory testing, some quick tests of network and pci components etc. While your machine may be doing the same thing every time it boots, it may not be in the same condition every time. You may add in a new card, or your cat may have pissed on it, or a small amphibian may have hopped into the fan duct (yes, both of these happen and have resulted in warranty repairs). Sometimes the effects of these actions are not felt until it is too late, unless diagnostics are run.
Once that's done, the OS has to start figuring out which parts of itself it needs to load. That's not always fast either, because they can't guarantee a consistent hardware set to work from. If you want it to "boot" fast, hibernate, but remember thanks to windoze it's not always a bad thing to reset and blow its brains out on a daily basis with a nice reset.
There are otherways to overthrow a government than to fight a landwar against an abrams tank. A deer rifle is better than a slingshot, to that end.
Quite the opposite. It is our high tech labor force that has priced itself out of low-level, non-innovative markets like manufacturing. A study of history would easily prove that - this nation has continuously become more high-tech while constantly shedding physical-labor intensive work elsewhere. An attempt to maintain a dying labor model in manufacturing spawned the original Luddites. Your suggestion is no different - smashing looms has never been the answer; creating the next better product is. That's where science comes in. Troll. You clearly have no idea what jobs are being sent overseas, what innovation really is, who does it, or what impacts your suggestion will drive as the next generation makes decisions in the school system. To be fair, you may just be an elitist snob, except for this gem "What, low-paying manufacturing jobs that we send overseas? Good, I don't want them. Wouldn't you rather get rid of crappy jobs, while using research to generate new good ones?". That identifies you as a troll, as any educated person working in R&D, should know that manufacturing requires a significant science and engineering staff to maintain, improve and ultimate, innovate. I know more scientists and engineers working on manufacturing improvements than in inventing new products, precisely because one of those is very much tied to corporate investments, and the other is scary and risky. Offshoring is a short-sighted "make money now" solution to a larger problem with how our economy works. Yes, it would be great if the "next big thing" comes along, but you can't manage that and if you put people out of jobs until it does, you're going to find people using weapons to put you out of business. That's also from history.
Any nerdrection which lasts longer than 4 hours, a nerdipism, is a sign of a serious mental disorder. Consult your nearest computer megastore helpdesk counter immediately.
I'd rather listen to the stupid nokia ring in the middle of a movie than have my employer turn a cell phone jammer on in the building interfering with my cell modem and my ability to check my email and run my personal life. YEah, tehy're paying me to be there, but only for 8 of the 10-14 hours i am there...
Priests reject sex (jokes aside). Are they God addicts? Something about this definition smells fishy.
People work best together when they are working personal agenda with significant tangible stakes and where cooperation produces personal benefit. It gets destructive when either the number of winners are excessively small, or when there is nothing at all worth competing over.
There are no shortage of good schools in the US. If you don't get in to MIT, there are so many other schools that offer equal education and opportunities that there's almost no reason to bother with it. Not so in some other countries. That may be part of the problem w/US education.
Another problem is that professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey positions are naturally limited and offer incredible rewards if achieved. Outside of athletics the only career choices that have quite the same expectation values are acting and "business", both are not heavily backed by strong academics. Doctors, lawyers and engineers all can do pretty well, but aren't that hard to get in to, and aren't very likely to make millions. Science remains a profession similar to professional art: only the really motivated can afford to pursue it.
This particular set of constraints doesn't exist elsewhere. There are big stakes for good engineers in India right now. China is busily trying to increase its technical industry to free itself from the West. There are big stakes for brainiacs, and less for entertainers or "american-style" businessmen (snake oil production optimizers).
Ok, but we have school teachers who can't teach math, period. My 5th grade teacher left me stupefied about "PEMDAS", but she did manage to teach us yoga and meditation (I'm serious). There is some evidence that our priorities are really screwed up. The competitiveness in academics in other countries is sometimes insane, but a LITTLE competition and respect might not be so bad either. There's no question our athletes are pushed to succeed, but in academics...I haven't seen anything other than parental pressure, mostly directed at getting in to one of the top tier colleges. Once there...eh. Hell, even in politics science & math takes a back burner to "common sense" be it religion or man on the street think.
Absolutely 0. If my employers found out about all this extra time I'd just spend it all sitting in front of a screen anyway. At least this way I have a reason to come home every day.
You guys are joking, and I was modded up +5 Funny, but I'm dead serious! I really HAVE received letters for not edging my lawn for several days. No kidding, I have 3 letters about edging my lawn (3 separate occasions, and I DO edge my lawn...twice a month) I have 2 letters about my grass being too tall (I mow it when I edge), 1 letter about a tree our builder installed that was actually approved by these people. Finally, I got a letter about the garden my wife made, that the neighbors actually like, that didn't have a "landscape plan submitted and approved". My next door neighbor had to replace two $300 trees he installed in his yard (because the builder chopped the nice native trees down) because the HOA didn't like the type (a low water, heat tolerant type which thrives in texas, but is different than what others have).
Staying indoors and avoiding my neighbors has never made more sense. I don't even have the luxury of taking revenge on our HOA pres. because he works at my company and is more senior. The more you know the people who live near you, the more treating video-games as violence simulators actually starts to make sense.
Given the HOA nazi's in my neighborhood, I'm not even sure I WANT to know my neighbors. They seem to support a pretty asinine institution, they must not be good people.
The problem is more of a legal issue. By having a judge interpret "what they meant" in a broad way, similar rulings can be applied on less terrible cases involving say: downloading songs rather than trying to rape underage girls. It's a little scary if judges can assume the latitude to rewrite laws (similar to presidents rewriting laws via signing statements).
In this particular case, it seems innocuous. The law was wrong to say 'email', they should have said "electronic communications", but I think some politicians (read: longtime winners of popularity contests, versus intelligent well-read people) were trying to be too smart for themselves in a "liberal-arts-majors-are-dumb-as-stumps" sort of way. It seems pretty lame that we had to make a new law to even cover "electronic communications" for this (or any other) crime. Raping young kids is raping young kids, how you lure them ought to be beside the fact. Whether you're in the proverbial unmarked white van or assuming the role of Mandy6969, you are wrong.
It would be nice if the internet could be relied upon to deliver low latency services, it is about all that is left in the network that we could care about (beyond more bwidth). I'm not going to weigh in on the proper way that could be done, I see many perfectly reasonable (but anti-monopoly) ways of doing it. The point being, the larger the commitee involved, the less good the result.
The UN isn't much better. If the UN has control no country will feel represented, the US (and corporate forces therein) can still bully, and bureacracy will prevent progress.
Really the internet stopped being useful when it became popular.
people trying to hire the top 90% or 95% of employees had better be willing to provide salaries and benefits in the top 90% to 95% as well.
So many companies forget that part! Particularly if they can convince the employees that their company is prestigious and worth taking a pay cut over. Don't buy it, somewhere around 4am one night you're going to realize that your prestigious company was just like the dump you got out of, only instead ofm anagers ASKING you to work weekends, they EXPECT it.
Exactly. RMS is the anti-thesis to everything that readers of Forbe's hold dear. They are going to treat him unfairly and ostracize him as the anti-christ.
RMS is the kind of guy that refuses to "be cool" and go with the flow. While I wouldn't have him over for dinner, we all need him. Greed should not be running hte world, and that's precisely what Forbe's is all about: "Justifiable Greed" (sometimes called Fiduciary Responsibility).
They are actually outsourcing engineering to India, I believe in an effort to chase HP. Some races should be lost.
This isn't exactly a game. It's "commercial internet", where money talks.
I don't think addiction is going to be a problem here, unless you're an MBA frustrated with the slow pace of corporate ladder climbing.
I don't think it's a good argument that sports are a good way to encourage lifelong physical fitness. At some point in life you will need to start getting daily excersize on your own even when you're not able to compete or can't get a team together. That's usually where most people, myself included, start to have problems. If it's just you, and the team isn't depending on you...it's easy to slip. Independence has long been missing from education, but I think it's the source of at least two problem articles on /. now.
Anyhow not being allowed to run in recess is not new. In NYC public schools (at least the ones I went to) we were not allowed to run. Of course we did it, but it usually ended in the teacher chasing you down and making you sit in a corner for a few minutes to "settle down". It wasn't until junior high or high school when there was organized PE that we got any real excersize (still no football or tag). Those programs were good, they taught exersizes that we could/should do on our own to maintain our bodies. That's what is truly needed.
The point of the article isn't lost on me...lawsuits for "kids being kids" are ridiculous. I just don't think this is a compelling counter-argument.
This is a great left coast piece deflecting blame from those responsible, to WoW. If you are losing your job, spouse, children, physique to WoW, it is your fault. End of story. WoW, as the title implies, does not do that. WoW, as MMOGs go, has around the least time commitment you're going to find. It could be improved, particularly on 40 mans, but it is possible (albeit difficult sometimes) to raid twice a week, for 3-4 hours a piece, and leave it at that. You won't get 30+ epics, and in Naxx in 2 months like some of the more ambitious guilds...but if your guild is well run, not plagued by favoritism and/or unfair rules, and full of adults with well rounded lives, you WILL get there. You can make sure your kids are doing homework, get your 30 minutes of treadmill time, and spend quality time with the dog all while working 9-10 hour work days (which at some companies may actually not be enough, but the problem is again, not with WoW). It takes self discipline, one of the hardest attributes to level, and one which we all struggle with.
There is a point where if you cannot control yourself around something, you must stop it entirely, but again, that is your responsibility. I don't think that's necessary for the vast majority of people.
getting your resume summary posted on a slashdot summary.
Unless they were cheating on the survey too!