Consider this generation, with the English script comes easier access to the English language, not that the English language is superior in any way other than being a hodge podge http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hodgepodge of other languages.
What it opens for this upcoming generation is a global exchange in thoughts ideas and cultural identities. English will likely change more in this century than it has in the past few hundred years, as new words and ideas and cultural expressions for which no existing English exists or even just changed for local slangs sake.
So will a person from the 20th century be fluent in 22nd century english or will they need a translator, I'm betting they'd need an auto-translator.
Lets think just a little, buy the DVD full season and after you have watched it sell it for about two thirds of what you paid for it or swap it with friends and don't forget you can watch it on your choice of hardware.
Lets be honest apple is showing it;s long term strips, overpriced hardware the can't be repaired and must be replaced and DRMed up the wazzo content that you can't buy and can only rent. The original DIVX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_(Digital_Video_Express) got slammed for exactly this kind of crap and died a well deserve red death. Now we can expect the apple marketdroid trolls to attack anyone that critiques while singing the praises of Steve Jobs.
Who are the apple marketdroids seeking to partner with none other than News Corp, the Fox not-News Network, so the message to the Rupert Murdoch, come with us we can sucker our market segment with 2 day rentals tied to a single device that only one person can watch at a time, pathetic.
What this really bolis down to is a mass media news outlet http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest trying to make a moutain out of mole hill in order to sell more advertising.
Basically bugger the schools, buggers the students, bugger the country, this story will sell more page views to reactionary idiots, "YAHOO".
Yet again mass media demonstrating it's adherence to profits over public interests.
Having 2 nurses allows for better engagement between staff and patient. The checking nurse can engage the patient, to reassure them, lighten their mood and to accurately confirm their current health state, whilst the other nurse provides treatment and also engages with the patient. One of the most important elements of the healing process is reassuring patient, reducing stress levels which substantially improves recovery rates. Two nurses working together will improve their mental health state which will reflect positively in their patient interactions.
Nett affect two nurses working together treat more patients then one on their own, the treatment process if of higher quality and will reduce patient recovery time and, cheaper insurance with a valid provable safety measure. Very tricky to say whether it is more costly or whether it will save money, keeping in mind a million dollar lawsuit employees quite a few nurses for a year. So knee jerk, more costly, carefully thought out likely cheaper.
The solution I have seen used locally is simply to use two nurses, one does the job the other runs through the check list. It might seem like a waste of wages but hey folks, it 'is' life and death. Mistakes become very rare, two people checking and you are reinforcing the presence of risk by having a monitoring nurse. An additional benefit is the significant reduction in stress of the nurses, reassuring to have some checking so you don't accidentally kill someone. Simple solutions are often the best.
In the US though the idea that teachers can work miracles has got out of hand and created unrealistic expectations. The foolish far right somehow expects if they pay teachers according to the grades their children get their children will automagically reject their parents genes and develop intellectual genes whilst still thinking the same foolish thoughts their parents do.
Rare teachers can engage the students more but they are rare and you can not buy them. The reality is the best way to teach children is on the job, you might consider that strange but bear in mind it is not possible on the current capitalist state of human society. It would require complete restructuring of the work environment even a specialised safe varied work environment that incorporates education into application, the emphasis being on varied learning opportunities not on being productive. In those conditions class size is even smaller 5 to 10 to be safer but continually seeing how knowledge is applied and then being able to apply knowledge gained in a limited fashion provides the best learning reward.
Think about, the only trade they do it for at the moment is idiot jock straps, so they can take up a career in "it's acting not lying" product promotion (selling junk to children and wannabe jockstraps), a pretty sad indictment upon human society.
Come on, let's get real, top notch teachers. I had good teachers and bad teachers the difference in the performance of students not much at all. Good students performed well, mediocre students were still mediocre, jock strap trouble makers were still idiots. Sure in smaller classes less than 20 and were the same multi skilled teacher remains with the students for the bulk of the say, teachers can focus on individual learning experiences and thus achieve more.
Classes of thirty plus with specialised teachers and lots of class swapping, if your kid is an idiot they will enter school the same way the leave it, an idiot, blame it upon reality crappy genes and an education disinterested parent.
Teachers have two jobs in crowded classrooms, keeping order and presenting material, those students who can learn will learn and those students who lack motivation and parental support will fail.
Yes we all know about the high schools and colleges for rich dummies where grades are based upon parental wealth, regardless of the qualifications supposedly earned, they are still useless. If it wasn't for scholarships for smart but poor, those schools grade point averages would reflect the reality of what they are really producing.
Fix the problem, switch from community to state based education funded and control. Easier to monitor and audit one rather trying to keep track of hundreds.
Linux is open source and covers many different groups. You fall guilty of the same nonsense using what was originally an M$ marketing strategy to paint all Linux users the same.
Governments use it, corporations use it, the military uses it, the bulk of ISP's use it. The majority use it to save time, hassle and of course money. Some use it because of greater control they can exercise over it.
Really it is no different to defining all M$ coders as tiny limp windrones and that statement is also not true.
Back on topic what was interesting was the answer, 'There's no Linux version that we're working on right now', so there is a Linux version and they are no longer working on it but will likely do so again in the future, likely subject to the success of smart books and Android and Linux code merging a bit.
At a guess you most likley will see and Android version for smartbooks and even phones first, all that late 90s early 2000s software ported across.
What did you expect D2D is News Corp aka Fox not-News, evil. Their anal retentive executives have managed to screw up every web property they bought with over bearing control and the desperate need to monetise the users, whacked out control freaks.
The reality is PC games are struggling simply because there is just so much content available, thousands of games to choose from, a whole decades worth of mostly still playable games and as the most important element of games is gameplay not graphics all still worth playing.
Over the last couple of years the focus was too much on what games looked like and what crappy over priced media licence they could abuse to drive sales, net result, large drop in sales. That and of course crappy console ports, generally crappy games that can only be sold to inexperienced gamers ie adds targeted at gullible children, basically multi-millionaire corporate executives stealing children's pocket money with false advertising and the ass hats take pride in their work, lame.
Not if it all just marketing blather. Best gaming experience, your ISP hosts multilayer games on high performance game servers and gives their customers priority over non customers ie. neutrality not infringed as QOS is tied to hosted games.
Lets get real, an ISP that is just prodviding a link to someone else's game servers, often another ISP, is just PR=B$ paying for something because, well, your a gullible teenage jock strap gamer who get's too much pocket money.
Want to find a gamer friendly ISP look for something like this http://games.on.net/, a whole bunch of game servers, games patches and mods, game forums and even game reviews. As a customer your game patch files et al come through at maximum network speed and, that is server priority for their customers not network priority (also doesn't affect data caps).
I am sure their are plenty of other examples where customer services are giving real priority rather than just a likely empty marketing tactic. Just to be clear, as a customer give me game server priority not network delusions.
I think you will find that they change their mind in order to win customers. As for the professionally paranoid, if you make it easy for suspect people to travel the rails, monitoring travel rather than preventing travel should prove more career rewarding. Note also due to absence of weight restriction, complex concealed monitoring equipment in private cabins and, public corridors becomes really easy.
With the government investing huge sums of money in high speed rail, ensuring it's profitable success will be the highest priority and you can not harass people willing to pay top dollar for private cabins, fully featured restaurant meals, comfortable accommodation and can afford to take their time and, feel safer not being in an alfoil tube full of explosive fuel at altitude, just isn't going to happen.
OLED has run into another competitive problem, LED-LCD. Add an additional layer to a LCD display, a LED behind each pixel (technically groups of three) and you get very high contrast and energy efficiency. Plain white LEDs are a lot easier than some of the other light frequencies and the hassles of trying to extend the life of OLEDs. As a benefit you just have to redesign existing production facilities to add fabrication of the additional layers
Profiting from war, WTF. Yes my poor addled brain remembers the third world war, earth being invaded by aliens on numerous occasions, travelling backward and forward in time to fight wars in various eras and those weird alien on alien conflicts.
The reality is there is only one way the majority of us profit from war, it's called peace (ignore the raging psychopathic military industrial machine).
It really depends upon 'whose' politicians they are, the people's or vested interests, the exploited or the exploiters, the democrats or the autocrats, the free or the enslavers.
The reality is not all politicians are equal, some are empty narcissistic talking heads who will say anything or support anything to make a buck, no lie is to big or to ludicrous, as long as they can make a dollar or a hundred thousand of them selling it.
There are better people out there, pay attention, focus on the truth and the hard troublesome answers.
Which are the better, man, now that is a tough questions, answer, keep tossing out the fucking rejects until you get reasonable ones, it might take years at a time but fuck mass media, giving up and, let rich arse holes run the system, that doesn't work, I mean that absopostively does not fucking work.
Just keep trying, time and time again, eventually you will end up with keepers regardless of the stripe, and my god, there have been some fuck heads, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Bush, Palin, McCain (I know the last few are just jokes but they are just so ludicrously lame).
The defining advantage of high speed rail, restaurant cars, when things go wrong generally things slow down rather than falling out of the sky, railway stations are far cheaper and simple affairs than airports and, no fucking 'TSA' ( the single most important defining point). No TSA will mean passengers swapping from flying to riding the rails is guaranteed.
No hassle at the train station, buy you ticket, dump your luggage and get on the train, no strip searches, no harassed children, no you name sounds like somebody else's name, no stolen notebooks and cameras, no disrespect of power freak numb nut means 24 hour detention and anal probes. Of course in the 21st century private cabin with high speed broadband and how much can yet get down on they way there and on the way back and still enjoy the restaurant car and of course the view.
As it is against the law to film someone in their own home without their knowledge, the criminal intent is attempting to do it, that they were successful means the broke the law.
This whole thing is nothing but bullshit politicking. The far right being driven by the gomers at the Fox not-News Network. Just another rant trying to create a political issue to, I don't know, promote and defend racism and prejudice. Right wing politics offers nothing so it spends it time screaming about non issues, which the arse holes at Fox not-News, not only promote but also plan and create a political strategy based upon them.
Most games allow you to play the opposing force, it is normal, hell you can't really play mutli-player without it. Although they now might consider an alternate where the opposing side are US soldiers who have been driven insane by evangelical bible bashing and have become zombie treasonous Christian soldiers who must be eliminated before their crazed, freedom of only our religion and eery other religion or non-religion must be banned ideology spreads.
Where were the screams when playing the Nazi who killed millions in concentration camps, or the sneak attack by Japanese (which you can in fact play as the Japanese in many games), or the non-believing Soviet Union who together with the US threatened to blow up the whole world thousands of times over with nukes.
Piss off Fox not-News your campaign of fear, hate, racism, prejudice and, lies, more lies and yet more lies, is disgusting. To all the Fox commentators ESAD ie. recycle.
A hint with sarcasm, it must exceed the extreme of the group it represents. In the case of right wing beliefs, you comment was not sarcastic at all but message spot on, something they acknowledge as coming from one of their own. You have to dig a little deeper, push well beyond what your would accept as the norm.
When you attempt to reach out to express the extremes of human mores, the words and style of expression must not just touch on but exceed norm and, when they norm is they farm right, the derision of those they can not compete, the victims of those excesses of the right must be fully expressed.
It is only really sarcasm when you exceed those that you revile in the excesses of their message not when you equal them, dig deeper, find their hate and greed and then mock it;).
You really are a dolt, Proof is mind boggling easy. Just compile statistics from around the globe of all the people that dies because they couldn't afford a profit inflated patented drug, literally millions of people, year in and year out. Look at all those threats of trade sanction when countries told the patent freaks to ESAD and produced patent infringing generics that saved millions of dollars and millions of lives. Do patents kill, absolutely.
The best by far most cost effective research is done by government upon an open basis where the goal is saving money not making it. The only true path to prosperity for all, ensuring psychopaths gain control of and influence nothing, the systematic targeting and elimination of those genetic aberrations that parasitically pray upon the rest of humanity.
Consider this is robotic surgery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_surgery virtual or not, as there is a digital interface controlling all the interactions between the doctor and the patient providing the surgical team a virtual representation of what is going on.
So in terms of teaching methods for robotic surgery you create virtual output for the doctor that reacts to the doctors inputs on the controls. So will robotic surgery by the dominant form with minimum patient intrusion and reduced infection risks. The more it is used the cheaper it becomes especially if governments around the world work together to fund open patent development of it (serving the public versus serving profits).
The internet is far more in depth than that. The reality is the internet is a complex interactive digital environment a font of self expression, the get anything significant out or it you have to put a lot into it. Research, understanding and expression, as well as tangents like administration and security, do not work well with the mobile phone texting generation who love simple dumb fad apps, the ringtone generation.
The ringtone generation because they are too lazy, indifferent, unmotivated to create a 10 second ringtone they will buy it and swap it and replace it with the next fad. The excludes of course the next generation of computer geeks/nerds basically the same as the last generation just with a bias to gui use. The mass market just product shifted, they didn't style shift, so passive idiot box viewing has shifted to passive internet use, with just a very slight creativity burst in social media. Really just cutting and pasting, making and breaking friends, picking on enemies, mass media driven peer pressure content consumption, gossip and, simple games, kinda reminds you of a primary school playground (more than just kinda).
There is a definite intellectual stratification of the internet, not age based at all (except pre teens). Computer nerds/geeks were, are and will be the creators of the internet, from teens to geriatrics, those that create the coral reefs where the other fish just follow the fad and shoal, they still of course represent by far the bulk in numbers but they are just mass consumers not creators (hence lack of ability).
Really lame aren't you. It was just another interpretation of flawed statistics a demonstration of how the numbers based upon the method of assessment can be looked and interpreted in many different ways. Hell, I even threw in a joke, with a reference to "Inner Space" (a sci fi movie for brass rod up passage person like you). Humour completely gone in your closed minded evangelical approach to slashdot comments that threaten your profit motivations. Single line spacings, on your comment, so that will stand out on the page and suck up more space (true marketdroid approach);P.
Afraid I have to be a bit tough on that one, "student employees of ITC, known as Computing Advisors (CAs), a group of first-year students hired to advise and assist their peers with computing", the tough world of statistics. So the students that require the greatest assistance in computer use are using either Windows or Apple, students using Linux require very little assistance and that's down to rounding error area.
So 43% of computer assistance requests are made by students that use apple computers (regardless of the number of students actually using apple computers) while 55% of assistance requests and made by students using windows computer and approximately 0% of assistance request are made by students using Linux . The message here want to save money in your university IT department hire students that using Linux, "the Linux machine : zero defects".
Catch is in a tough job market, trust takes precedence over qualifications. Especially when you start squeezing down salaries of your computer IT staff. Stories like this will ramp up the fear factor, any hint of untrustworthiness will make successful job applications pretty hard especially in an interconnected world.
The other big thing of course, 'identity theft' (the credit card company lie for defrauding the accepted the false identity), ain't no such thing as identity theft in the cash economy, apart from of course stealing the identity of the currency itself.
Also get caught as a player and you will likely spend the rest of your life on an automated global digital watch list, every minute of every hour of every day, eww. Based upon past paranoid practices, expect stuff like required notifications to ISP at account opening for any convicted network cracker, even required notification to any computer based organisation that requests a log in.
When economic conditions are tough, is the worst time to play, as governments will seek distraction and people are looking to blame anybody for everything. Of course when conditions are tough, that's when the temptation is the greatest, interesting times.
WTF, pick up a book, have you never heard of the internet. Most young coders I have meet all got their coding drive from the net, it like auto-magically happens, just try Ctrl+U, to find the new initial coding kick.
I would have though teaching computer admin in High Schools would have made more sense, however it can become troublesome for obvious reasons. As for learning tools for coding I think Html and Ruby make a good combination for those starting ie. creativity from html and easy to read code from Ruby with interactive shell for immediate feed back (immediate feedback from each line of code). A three window shell for Ruby could be useful, one for code, one for output and one for behind the scenes, all current variables their values and type and all executing functions expressed as formulas with variables or values.
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Consider this generation, with the English script comes easier access to the English language, not that the English language is superior in any way other than being a hodge podge http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hodgepodge of other languages.
What it opens for this upcoming generation is a global exchange in thoughts ideas and cultural identities. English will likely change more in this century than it has in the past few hundred years, as new words and ideas and cultural expressions for which no existing English exists or even just changed for local slangs sake.
So will a person from the 20th century be fluent in 22nd century english or will they need a translator, I'm betting they'd need an auto-translator.
Lets think just a little, buy the DVD full season and after you have watched it sell it for about two thirds of what you paid for it or swap it with friends and don't forget you can watch it on your choice of hardware.
Lets be honest apple is showing it;s long term strips, overpriced hardware the can't be repaired and must be replaced and DRMed up the wazzo content that you can't buy and can only rent. The original DIVX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_(Digital_Video_Express) got slammed for exactly this kind of crap and died a well deserve red death. Now we can expect the apple marketdroid trolls to attack anyone that critiques while singing the praises of Steve Jobs.
Who are the apple marketdroids seeking to partner with none other than News Corp, the Fox not-News Network, so the message to the Rupert Murdoch, come with us we can sucker our market segment with 2 day rentals tied to a single device that only one person can watch at a time, pathetic.
What this really bolis down to is a mass media news outlet http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest trying to make a moutain out of mole hill in order to sell more advertising.
Basically bugger the schools, buggers the students, bugger the country, this story will sell more page views to reactionary idiots, "YAHOO".
Yet again mass media demonstrating it's adherence to profits over public interests.
Having 2 nurses allows for better engagement between staff and patient. The checking nurse can engage the patient, to reassure them, lighten their mood and to accurately confirm their current health state, whilst the other nurse provides treatment and also engages with the patient. One of the most important elements of the healing process is reassuring patient, reducing stress levels which substantially improves recovery rates. Two nurses working together will improve their mental health state which will reflect positively in their patient interactions.
Nett affect two nurses working together treat more patients then one on their own, the treatment process if of higher quality and will reduce patient recovery time and, cheaper insurance with a valid provable safety measure. Very tricky to say whether it is more costly or whether it will save money, keeping in mind a million dollar lawsuit employees quite a few nurses for a year. So knee jerk, more costly, carefully thought out likely cheaper.
The solution I have seen used locally is simply to use two nurses, one does the job the other runs through the check list. It might seem like a waste of wages but hey folks, it 'is' life and death. Mistakes become very rare, two people checking and you are reinforcing the presence of risk by having a monitoring nurse. An additional benefit is the significant reduction in stress of the nurses, reassuring to have some checking so you don't accidentally kill someone. Simple solutions are often the best.
In the US though the idea that teachers can work miracles has got out of hand and created unrealistic expectations. The foolish far right somehow expects if they pay teachers according to the grades their children get their children will automagically reject their parents genes and develop intellectual genes whilst still thinking the same foolish thoughts their parents do.
Rare teachers can engage the students more but they are rare and you can not buy them. The reality is the best way to teach children is on the job, you might consider that strange but bear in mind it is not possible on the current capitalist state of human society. It would require complete restructuring of the work environment even a specialised safe varied work environment that incorporates education into application, the emphasis being on varied learning opportunities not on being productive. In those conditions class size is even smaller 5 to 10 to be safer but continually seeing how knowledge is applied and then being able to apply knowledge gained in a limited fashion provides the best learning reward.
Think about, the only trade they do it for at the moment is idiot jock straps, so they can take up a career in "it's acting not lying" product promotion (selling junk to children and wannabe jockstraps), a pretty sad indictment upon human society.
Come on, let's get real, top notch teachers. I had good teachers and bad teachers the difference in the performance of students not much at all. Good students performed well, mediocre students were still mediocre, jock strap trouble makers were still idiots. Sure in smaller classes less than 20 and were the same multi skilled teacher remains with the students for the bulk of the say, teachers can focus on individual learning experiences and thus achieve more.
Classes of thirty plus with specialised teachers and lots of class swapping, if your kid is an idiot they will enter school the same way the leave it, an idiot, blame it upon reality crappy genes and an education disinterested parent.
Teachers have two jobs in crowded classrooms, keeping order and presenting material, those students who can learn will learn and those students who lack motivation and parental support will fail.
Yes we all know about the high schools and colleges for rich dummies where grades are based upon parental wealth, regardless of the qualifications supposedly earned, they are still useless. If it wasn't for scholarships for smart but poor, those schools grade point averages would reflect the reality of what they are really producing.
Fix the problem, switch from community to state based education funded and control. Easier to monitor and audit one rather trying to keep track of hundreds.
Linux is open source and covers many different groups. You fall guilty of the same nonsense using what was originally an M$ marketing strategy to paint all Linux users the same.
Governments use it, corporations use it, the military uses it, the bulk of ISP's use it. The majority use it to save time, hassle and of course money. Some use it because of greater control they can exercise over it.
Really it is no different to defining all M$ coders as tiny limp windrones and that statement is also not true.
Back on topic what was interesting was the answer, 'There's no Linux version that we're working on right now', so there is a Linux version and they are no longer working on it but will likely do so again in the future, likely subject to the success of smart books and Android and Linux code merging a bit.
At a guess you most likley will see and Android version for smartbooks and even phones first, all that late 90s early 2000s software ported across.
What did you expect D2D is News Corp aka Fox not-News, evil. Their anal retentive executives have managed to screw up every web property they bought with over bearing control and the desperate need to monetise the users, whacked out control freaks.
The reality is PC games are struggling simply because there is just so much content available, thousands of games to choose from, a whole decades worth of mostly still playable games and as the most important element of games is gameplay not graphics all still worth playing.
Over the last couple of years the focus was too much on what games looked like and what crappy over priced media licence they could abuse to drive sales, net result, large drop in sales. That and of course crappy console ports, generally crappy games that can only be sold to inexperienced gamers ie adds targeted at gullible children, basically multi-millionaire corporate executives stealing children's pocket money with false advertising and the ass hats take pride in their work, lame.
Not if it all just marketing blather. Best gaming experience, your ISP hosts multilayer games on high performance game servers and gives their customers priority over non customers ie. neutrality not infringed as QOS is tied to hosted games.
Lets get real, an ISP that is just prodviding a link to someone else's game servers, often another ISP, is just PR=B$ paying for something because, well, your a gullible teenage jock strap gamer who get's too much pocket money.
Want to find a gamer friendly ISP look for something like this http://games.on.net/, a whole bunch of game servers, games patches and mods, game forums and even game reviews. As a customer your game patch files et al come through at maximum network speed and, that is server priority for their customers not network priority (also doesn't affect data caps).
I am sure their are plenty of other examples where customer services are giving real priority rather than just a likely empty marketing tactic. Just to be clear, as a customer give me game server priority not network delusions.
I think you will find that they change their mind in order to win customers. As for the professionally paranoid, if you make it easy for suspect people to travel the rails, monitoring travel rather than preventing travel should prove more career rewarding. Note also due to absence of weight restriction, complex concealed monitoring equipment in private cabins and, public corridors becomes really easy.
With the government investing huge sums of money in high speed rail, ensuring it's profitable success will be the highest priority and you can not harass people willing to pay top dollar for private cabins, fully featured restaurant meals, comfortable accommodation and can afford to take their time and, feel safer not being in an alfoil tube full of explosive fuel at altitude, just isn't going to happen.
OLED has run into another competitive problem, LED-LCD. Add an additional layer to a LCD display, a LED behind each pixel (technically groups of three) and you get very high contrast and energy efficiency. Plain white LEDs are a lot easier than some of the other light frequencies and the hassles of trying to extend the life of OLEDs. As a benefit you just have to redesign existing production facilities to add fabrication of the additional layers
Profiting from war, WTF. Yes my poor addled brain remembers the third world war, earth being invaded by aliens on numerous occasions, travelling backward and forward in time to fight wars in various eras and those weird alien on alien conflicts.
The reality is there is only one way the majority of us profit from war, it's called peace (ignore the raging psychopathic military industrial machine).
It really depends upon 'whose' politicians they are, the people's or vested interests, the exploited or the exploiters, the democrats or the autocrats, the free or the enslavers.
The reality is not all politicians are equal, some are empty narcissistic talking heads who will say anything or support anything to make a buck, no lie is to big or to ludicrous, as long as they can make a dollar or a hundred thousand of them selling it.
There are better people out there, pay attention, focus on the truth and the hard troublesome answers.
Which are the better, man, now that is a tough questions, answer, keep tossing out the fucking rejects until you get reasonable ones, it might take years at a time but fuck mass media, giving up and, let rich arse holes run the system, that doesn't work, I mean that absopostively does not fucking work.
Just keep trying, time and time again, eventually you will end up with keepers regardless of the stripe, and my god, there have been some fuck heads, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Bush, Palin, McCain (I know the last few are just jokes but they are just so ludicrously lame).
The defining advantage of high speed rail, restaurant cars, when things go wrong generally things slow down rather than falling out of the sky, railway stations are far cheaper and simple affairs than airports and, no fucking 'TSA' ( the single most important defining point). No TSA will mean passengers swapping from flying to riding the rails is guaranteed.
No hassle at the train station, buy you ticket, dump your luggage and get on the train, no strip searches, no harassed children, no you name sounds like somebody else's name, no stolen notebooks and cameras, no disrespect of power freak numb nut means 24 hour detention and anal probes. Of course in the 21st century private cabin with high speed broadband and how much can yet get down on they way there and on the way back and still enjoy the restaurant car and of course the view.
As it is against the law to film someone in their own home without their knowledge, the criminal intent is attempting to do it, that they were successful means the broke the law.
This whole thing is nothing but bullshit politicking. The far right being driven by the gomers at the Fox not-News Network. Just another rant trying to create a political issue to, I don't know, promote and defend racism and prejudice. Right wing politics offers nothing so it spends it time screaming about non issues, which the arse holes at Fox not-News, not only promote but also plan and create a political strategy based upon them.
Most games allow you to play the opposing force, it is normal, hell you can't really play mutli-player without it. Although they now might consider an alternate where the opposing side are US soldiers who have been driven insane by evangelical bible bashing and have become zombie treasonous Christian soldiers who must be eliminated before their crazed, freedom of only our religion and eery other religion or non-religion must be banned ideology spreads.
Where were the screams when playing the Nazi who killed millions in concentration camps, or the sneak attack by Japanese (which you can in fact play as the Japanese in many games), or the non-believing Soviet Union who together with the US threatened to blow up the whole world thousands of times over with nukes.
Piss off Fox not-News your campaign of fear, hate, racism, prejudice and, lies, more lies and yet more lies, is disgusting. To all the Fox commentators ESAD ie. recycle.
When you attempt to reach out to express the extremes of human mores, the words and style of expression must not just touch on but exceed norm and, when they norm is they farm right, the derision of those they can not compete, the victims of those excesses of the right must be fully expressed.
It is only really sarcasm when you exceed those that you revile in the excesses of their message not when you equal them, dig deeper, find their hate and greed and then mock it ;).
You really are a dolt, Proof is mind boggling easy. Just compile statistics from around the globe of all the people that dies because they couldn't afford a profit inflated patented drug, literally millions of people, year in and year out. Look at all those threats of trade sanction when countries told the patent freaks to ESAD and produced patent infringing generics that saved millions of dollars and millions of lives. Do patents kill, absolutely.
The best by far most cost effective research is done by government upon an open basis where the goal is saving money not making it. The only true path to prosperity for all, ensuring psychopaths gain control of and influence nothing, the systematic targeting and elimination of those genetic aberrations that parasitically pray upon the rest of humanity.
Consider this is robotic surgery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_surgery virtual or not, as there is a digital interface controlling all the interactions between the doctor and the patient providing the surgical team a virtual representation of what is going on.
So in terms of teaching methods for robotic surgery you create virtual output for the doctor that reacts to the doctors inputs on the controls. So will robotic surgery by the dominant form with minimum patient intrusion and reduced infection risks. The more it is used the cheaper it becomes especially if governments around the world work together to fund open patent development of it (serving the public versus serving profits).
The internet is far more in depth than that. The reality is the internet is a complex interactive digital environment a font of self expression, the get anything significant out or it you have to put a lot into it. Research, understanding and expression, as well as tangents like administration and security, do not work well with the mobile phone texting generation who love simple dumb fad apps, the ringtone generation.
The ringtone generation because they are too lazy, indifferent, unmotivated to create a 10 second ringtone they will buy it and swap it and replace it with the next fad. The excludes of course the next generation of computer geeks/nerds basically the same as the last generation just with a bias to gui use. The mass market just product shifted, they didn't style shift, so passive idiot box viewing has shifted to passive internet use, with just a very slight creativity burst in social media. Really just cutting and pasting, making and breaking friends, picking on enemies, mass media driven peer pressure content consumption, gossip and, simple games, kinda reminds you of a primary school playground (more than just kinda).
There is a definite intellectual stratification of the internet, not age based at all (except pre teens). Computer nerds/geeks were, are and will be the creators of the internet, from teens to geriatrics, those that create the coral reefs where the other fish just follow the fad and shoal, they still of course represent by far the bulk in numbers but they are just mass consumers not creators (hence lack of ability).
Really lame aren't you. It was just another interpretation of flawed statistics a demonstration of how the numbers based upon the method of assessment can be looked and interpreted in many different ways. Hell, I even threw in a joke, with a reference to "Inner Space" (a sci fi movie for brass rod up passage person like you). Humour completely gone in your closed minded evangelical approach to slashdot comments that threaten your profit motivations. Single line spacings, on your comment, so that will stand out on the page and suck up more space (true marketdroid approach) ;P.
Afraid I have to be a bit tough on that one, "student employees of ITC, known as Computing Advisors (CAs), a group of first-year students hired to advise and assist their peers with computing", the tough world of statistics. So the students that require the greatest assistance in computer use are using either Windows or Apple, students using Linux require very little assistance and that's down to rounding error area.
So 43% of computer assistance requests are made by students that use apple computers (regardless of the number of students actually using apple computers) while 55% of assistance requests and made by students using windows computer and approximately 0% of assistance request are made by students using Linux . The message here want to save money in your university IT department hire students that using Linux, "the Linux machine : zero defects".
Catch is in a tough job market, trust takes precedence over qualifications. Especially when you start squeezing down salaries of your computer IT staff. Stories like this will ramp up the fear factor, any hint of untrustworthiness will make successful job applications pretty hard especially in an interconnected world.
The other big thing of course, 'identity theft' (the credit card company lie for defrauding the accepted the false identity), ain't no such thing as identity theft in the cash economy, apart from of course stealing the identity of the currency itself.
Also get caught as a player and you will likely spend the rest of your life on an automated global digital watch list, every minute of every hour of every day, eww. Based upon past paranoid practices, expect stuff like required notifications to ISP at account opening for any convicted network cracker, even required notification to any computer based organisation that requests a log in.
When economic conditions are tough, is the worst time to play, as governments will seek distraction and people are looking to blame anybody for everything. Of course when conditions are tough, that's when the temptation is the greatest, interesting times.
WTF, pick up a book, have you never heard of the internet. Most young coders I have meet all got their coding drive from the net, it like auto-magically happens, just try Ctrl+U, to find the new initial coding kick.
I would have though teaching computer admin in High Schools would have made more sense, however it can become troublesome for obvious reasons. As for learning tools for coding I think Html and Ruby make a good combination for those starting ie. creativity from html and easy to read code from Ruby with interactive shell for immediate feed back (immediate feedback from each line of code). A three window shell for Ruby could be useful, one for code, one for output and one for behind the scenes, all current variables their values and type and all executing functions expressed as formulas with variables or values.