The idea of a divine creator is no sillier than the idea of creation from nothing.
I'm tempted to agree with that statement. The problem I have with religious belief systems is when questioning the system is forbidden. A (good) scientist is willing to change his theory to suit his observations. Non-religious types "mock" those who are so attached to what they've been told to believe they can't accept new information.
the IT world changes *way* faster than either of those fields.
Things change fast sure, but by that token, not all of the changes are permanent or important. I'm not averse to learning new stuff if it's proven, but I don't go running after new stuff simply because it's there. Old programming languages still work fine for new tech if they have appropriate libraries, etc.
Also true - but if a client is demanding a shiny new unproven technology and is willing to pay for it then it's generally in management's best interest to oblige. That is what results in the younger developers being more valuable -- in school they've been able to dedicate considerable time to the shiny new tech before it was commercially viable. Now they're the only people with years of experience using it.
If that's the only talent they have don't worry -- they'll stagnate once the next shiny tech comes along and their one value-add is moot.
Yes, I tried it with a couple of Dell keyboards.
Normal wash cycle, air dry.
Now I have two spotless but broken keyboards. I suspect the water was too hot for the unprotected circuitry.
Does this guy realize that by using Bittorrent to download all these albums he is in fact distributing copyrighted material?
Does anyone know if the RIAA has sued anyone solely due to them having an open torrent of a copyrighted work as opposed to sharing on a more traditional P2P network?
I know at Rice many of our EE classes are taught using online texts which are all part of the Connexions Project where authors contribute "modules" of information (using xml under a creative commons license) and educators can form complete texts from these modules (see more on the philosophy page).
Yes you pay for your internet access but how much of that money goes to the websites you visit? Many websites would not be able to survive without the revenue they get from advertising.
Instead of having an ISP that blocks all ads you would be better off having consumers that only visit sites that do not show ads (or websites that they subscribe to in order to bypass ads). Not unless your ISP passes on the extra money it collects for blocking ads to the websites that originally displayed the ads it blocked.
Viewing ads is the cost of being able to visit the website you are visiting.
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The idea of a divine creator is no sillier than the idea of creation from nothing.
I'm tempted to agree with that statement. The problem I have with religious belief systems is when questioning the system is forbidden. A (good) scientist is willing to change his theory to suit his observations. Non-religious types "mock" those who are so attached to what they've been told to believe they can't accept new information.
the IT world changes *way* faster than either of those fields.
Things change fast sure, but by that token, not all of the changes are permanent or important. I'm not averse to learning new stuff if it's proven, but I don't go running after new stuff simply because it's there. Old programming languages still work fine for new tech if they have appropriate libraries, etc.
Also true - but if a client is demanding a shiny new unproven technology and is willing to pay for it then it's generally in management's best interest to oblige. That is what results in the younger developers being more valuable -- in school they've been able to dedicate considerable time to the shiny new tech before it was commercially viable. Now they're the only people with years of experience using it. If that's the only talent they have don't worry -- they'll stagnate once the next shiny tech comes along and their one value-add is moot.
Yes, I tried it with a couple of Dell keyboards. Normal wash cycle, air dry. Now I have two spotless but broken keyboards. I suspect the water was too hot for the unprotected circuitry.
Does this guy realize that by using Bittorrent to download all these albums he is in fact distributing copyrighted material? Does anyone know if the RIAA has sued anyone solely due to them having an open torrent of a copyrighted work as opposed to sharing on a more traditional P2P network?
I know at Rice many of our EE classes are taught using online texts which are all part of the Connexions Project where authors contribute "modules" of information (using xml under a creative commons license) and educators can form complete texts from these modules (see more on the philosophy page).
Yes you pay for your internet access but how much of that money goes to the websites you visit? Many websites would not be able to survive without the revenue they get from advertising. Instead of having an ISP that blocks all ads you would be better off having consumers that only visit sites that do not show ads (or websites that they subscribe to in order to bypass ads). Not unless your ISP passes on the extra money it collects for blocking ads to the websites that originally displayed the ads it blocked. Viewing ads is the cost of being able to visit the website you are visiting.