I'm a computer science student at a university. I've known for 10 years that I was going to get a degree in computer science? Was I planning on being a multi-millionaire? No way. I don't think I had any clue about how much money was involved.
Am I going to change my profession because of ups and downs in the economy or because the job market is shrinking? I haven't even considered it. Why? Because money isn't really that important to me. Of course, I have to have a job to live, but money isn't my sole motivation. I don't want to have the biggest house around, and I actually prefer old cars to new ones (if nothing else, they're less likely to get stolen). I don't care if I'm not making $60-70,000.
And besides, I figure that since I actually have a love for computers, I'll end up being better then the average loser that chose to go into I.T. because it looked lucrative.
So, I guess my point is that maybe our industry is a little spoiled, and maybe a little out-sourcing is a good thing.
His 3D perception and face and object recognition was still severely impaired. Mr May could only identify around a quarter of common objects shown to him. And he was also only able to tell if an unfamiliar face was male or female 70% of the time.
I thought this was really interesting. We tend to take so many things for granted. There must be millions of objects that he is very familiar with by touch and sound, but he's never had the chance to see what they look like. It must take a really long time to learn what everything looks like.
Reading this story, I feel very grateful that I can tell the difference between men and women (with a few exceptions).
I was at the little "chat" with McBride afterwards. He informed us that home users don't have to worry yet, but that commercial users aren't going to get away with their free lunches anymore. McBride repeatedly (at least 10 times) said that SCO's intentions would become clear in July.
My impression is that in July, SCO is going to send a bill to each of the 1500 companies that they sent the warnings to, and more. I think that they're going to start collecting money before anything has happened in court.
What do you think we're trying to do? Do you think we're so stupid that we think we're going to change SCO's mind?
No way!
The purpose of the protest was to show normal everyday people, through the media, what is really going on in the peaceful town of Lindon. And you know what? We were successful. Two major Utah newspapers covered our protest, and we had a front page article with one of them.
After the "chat" we had with McBride, it was obvious that he didn't care at all about what we thought, but as long as the public is a little more aware of the issues, we feel we were successful.
And interestingly, he waved the one side of the folder in front of us, informing us that he was able to show us the Linux side but not the other "proprietary" side. Of course, he did it quickly enough that we weren't able to read a line of it.
I was there, too, and I don't agree with this interpretation of what the SCO people were doing. First of all, they only gave drinks to two or three people; the rest of us had our own.
And none of our protesters touched their anti-protest signs. The writer of this comment must have mistaken them for our people because the signs were being marched around.
Sure, everyone had a great time, but I don't feel like the SCO people were very respectful, except for McBride who talked to us in a political not-actually-answering-any-questions way.
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I'm a computer science student at a university. I've known for 10 years that I was going to get a degree in computer science? Was I planning on being a multi-millionaire? No way. I don't think I had any clue about how much money was involved.
Am I going to change my profession because of ups and downs in the economy or because the job market is shrinking? I haven't even considered it. Why? Because money isn't really that important to me. Of course, I have to have a job to live, but money isn't my sole motivation. I don't want to have the biggest house around, and I actually prefer old cars to new ones (if nothing else, they're less likely to get stolen). I don't care if I'm not making $60-70,000.
And besides, I figure that since I actually have a love for computers, I'll end up being better then the average loser that chose to go into I.T. because it looked lucrative.
So, I guess my point is that maybe our industry is a little spoiled, and maybe a little out-sourcing is a good thing.
His 3D perception and face and object recognition was still severely impaired. Mr May could only identify around a quarter of common objects shown to him. And he was also only able to tell if an unfamiliar face was male or female 70% of the time.
I thought this was really interesting. We tend to take so many things for granted. There must be millions of objects that he is very familiar with by touch and sound, but he's never had the chance to see what they look like. It must take a really long time to learn what everything looks like.
Reading this story, I feel very grateful that I can tell the difference between men and women (with a few exceptions).
SCO must have stolen this and then set up their website so that Linux people can't get to it.
I don't think that's very bright. What is SCO's "Official Guarantee" going to get you? A right to get your money back if they end up losing in court?
Something tells me SCO isn't going to have too much money to pay you back with once IBM is through with them.
I propose that introducing stupid bills should be an automatic felony.
When a legislator is convicted, he is no longer eligable to vote or run for office.
Before you know it, all the lame congressmen and senators are in jail, and we start getting cool laws!!
I was at the little "chat" with McBride afterwards. He informed us that home users don't have to worry yet, but that commercial users aren't going to get away with their free lunches anymore. McBride repeatedly (at least 10 times) said that SCO's intentions would become clear in July.
My impression is that in July, SCO is going to send a bill to each of the 1500 companies that they sent the warnings to, and more. I think that they're going to start collecting money before anything has happened in court.
What do you think we're trying to do? Do you think we're so stupid that we think we're going to change SCO's mind?
No way!
The purpose of the protest was to show normal everyday people, through the media, what is really going on in the peaceful town of Lindon. And you know what? We were successful. Two major Utah newspapers covered our protest, and we had a front page article with one of them.
After the "chat" we had with McBride, it was obvious that he didn't care at all about what we thought, but as long as the public is a little more aware of the issues, we feel we were successful.
And besides, we had a lot of fun.
And interestingly, he waved the one side of the folder in front of us, informing us that he was able to show us the Linux side but not the other "proprietary" side. Of course, he did it quickly enough that we weren't able to read a line of it.
I was there, too, and I don't agree with this interpretation of what the SCO people were doing. First of all, they only gave drinks to two or three people; the rest of us had our own.
And none of our protesters touched their anti-protest signs. The writer of this comment must have mistaken them for our people because the signs were being marched around.
Sure, everyone had a great time, but I don't feel like the SCO people were very respectful, except for McBride who talked to us in a political not-actually-answering-any-questions way.